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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.[1] Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. Some historians are recognized by publications or training and experience.[2] "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany and elsewhere.

For other uses, see Historian (disambiguation).

List of historians

 – Specialist or aficionado of antiquities or things of the past

Antiquarian

 – Scholarly disciplines in historical research

Auxiliary sciences of history

 – Study of the methods of historians

Historiography

Historical revisionism

Historical negationism

The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford U.P. 1995) 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics , vol 2 online

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Allison, William Henry. A guide to historical literature (1931) comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930.

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Barnes, Harry ElmerA history of historical writing (1962)

Barraclough, Geoffrey. History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences, (1978)

Bentley, Michael. ed., Companion to Historiography, Routledge, 1997,  0415030846 pp; 39 chapters by experts

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Bender, Thomas, et al. The Education of Historians for Twenty-first Century (2003) report by the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association

Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007,  0-226-07278-9

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Boia, Lucian et al., eds. Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary (1991)

Cannon, John, et al., eds. The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians. Blackwell Publishers, 1988  0-631-14708-X.

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Gilderhus, Mark T. History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction, 2002,  0-13-044824-9

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Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (2005)

Kelly, Boyd, ed. Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. (1999). Fitzroy Dearborn  1-884964-33-8

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Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. A Companion to Western Historical Thought Blackwell 2006. 520pp;  978-1-4051-4961-7.

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Todd, Richard B. ed. Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500–1960, (2004). Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004  1-85506-997-0.

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Woolf D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 vol 1998)

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Selected texts by the most known historians