Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”)
Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War)
Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”)
Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc.
William H. McNeill
I checked to make sure I was spelling his name right and I am astonished to find out he’s still alive. The Rise of the West was published in 1963 after all.
Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”)
Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War)
Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”)
Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc.
William H. McNeill
Francis Parkman, author of the 7-volume “France and England in North America”; the Parkman prizes awarded by the Society of American Historians are named for him.
Daniel J. Boorstin (Librarian of Congress, author of The Image and The Landmark History of the American People)
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (leading French historian, “rock star of the medievalists”)
Thucydides (historian of the Peloponnesian War)
Edward Gibbon (“The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”)
Barbara Tuchman, author of “A Distant Mirror,” “The Guns of August,” “The First Salute,” etc.
William H. McNeill
Francis Parkman, author of the 7-volume “France and England in North America”; the Parkman prizes awarded by the Society of American Historians are named for him.
Herodotus, author of “The Histories” about the Greco-Persian Wars, known as “the Father of History”.