Historians of the American Revolution

Merrill Monroe Jensen (July 16, 1905 in Elk Horn, Iowa - January 30, 1980 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American historian, whose research and writing focused on the ratification of the United States Constitution.

Justin Winsor (January 2, 1831 – October 22, 1897) was a prominent American writer, librarian, and historian.

Richard Brandon Morris (July 24, 1904 – March 3, 1989) was an American historian best known for his pioneering work in colonial American legal history and the early history of American labor.

Richard Frothingham, Jr.

Eugenia Scholay Washington (June 27, 1838 – November 30, 1900) was an American historian, civil servant, and a founder of the lineage societies, Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America.

William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South.

John Clement Fitzpatrick (August 10, 1876 – February 10, 1940) was an archivist and an early American historian, widely regarded as an authority on George Washington.

Brendan McConville (born 1965) is an author and professor of history at Boston University.

John E. Ferling (born 1940) is a professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia.

John Mack Faragher (born Phoenix, Arizona) is an American historian.

Charles Page Smith (September 6, 1917 – August 28, 1995), who was known by his middle name, was a U.

Pauline Alice Maier (née Rubbelke; April 27, 1938 – August 12, 2013) was a revisionist historian of the American Revolution, though her work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War.

Forrest McDonald (January 7, 1927 – January 19, 2016) was an American historian, who wrote extensively on the early national period of the United States, on republicanism, and on the presidency.

Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933 in Concord, Massachusetts) is Alva O.

Julian Parks Boyd CBE (1903–28 May 1980) was Professor of history at Princeton University.

Winthrop Donaldson Jordan (November 11, 1931 – February 23, 2007) was a professor of history and renowned writer on the history of slavery and the origins of racism in the United States.

Kenneth Silverman (born on February 5, 1936 in Manhattan, New York) is a professor emeritus of English at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.

Howard Henry Peckham, (July 13, 1910 – July 6, 1995) was a professor and historian and an authority on colonial and early American history who published a number of works on those subjects.

John Brewster Hattendorf, D.

David Brion Davis (born February 16, 1927 in Denver, Colorado) is an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world.

Alfred Thayer Mahan [məˈhæn] (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy admiral, geostrategist, and historian, who has been called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.

Born in New Concord (now Lisbon), New Hampshire, Sabine moved to Boston, Massachusetts, with his parents in 1811 and to Hampden, Maine, in 1814.

Abner Linwood Holton, III, known as Woody Holton, is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.

Charles Howard McIlwain (March 15, 1871 – June 1, 1968) was an American historian and political scientist who won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1924.

Claude Halstead Van Tyne (October 16, 1869 – March 21, 1930) was an American historian.

Philip D. Morgan (born 1949) is a British historian.

Piers Gerald Mackesy FBA (15 September 1924—30 June 2014) was a British military historian who taught at the University of Oxford.

William Bradford Willcox (October 29, 1907 – September 15, 1985) was an American historian.

William Bell Clark (September 26, 1889 – October 31, 1968) was an advertising executive and self-taught naval historian, specializing in the period of the American Revolution, 1775-1783.

William Stevens Perry (January 22, 1832 – May 13, 1898) was a 19th-century bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America and an educator.

Rhys Llywelyn Isaac (November 20, 1937 in Cape Town, South Africa – October 6, 2010 in Blairgowrie, Victoria, Australia) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning South African-born Australian historian of American history who also worked in the United States.

Benjamin Arthur Quarles (January 23, 1904 – November 16, 1996) was an African-American historian, administrator, scholar, educator, and writer.

Benjamin Woods Labaree (born July 21, 1927) is a leading historian of American colonial history and American maritime history.

Robert L. Middlekauff (born 1929) is a professor emeritus of colonial and early United States history at UC Berkeley.

Fawn McKay Brodie (September 15, 1915 – January 10, 1981) was a biographer and one of the first female professors of history at UCLA, who is best known for Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974), a work of psychobiography, and No Man Knows My History (1945), an early and still influential non-hagiographic biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet OM PC (20 July 1838 – 17 August 1928) was a British statesman and author.

Don Higginbotham (May 22, 1931 – June 22, 2008) was an American historian and Dowd Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lyman Copeland Draper, (September 4, 1815 – August 26, 1891) was a librarian and historian who served as secretary for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin.

Mark Mayo Boatner III (28 June 1921 - 10 June 2006) is an American soldier, historian, and author.

Mary Beth Norton (born 1943) is an American historian.

Alexander Gregg (1819–1893), an Episcopal clergyman, was the first bishop of Texas.

Arthur Bernon Tourtellot was born July 23, 1913.

Charles Oscar Paullin (20 July 1869 – 1 September 1944) was an important naval historian, who made a significant early contribution to the administrative history of the United States Navy.

Edwin Cole Bearss (/ˈbɑːrs/; born June 26, 1923), a United States Marine Corps veteran of World War II, is a military historian and author known for his work on the American Civil War and World War II eras.

Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 – 19 February 1882) was a Methodist minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario, Canada.

Jared Sparks (May 10, 1789 – March 14, 1866) was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister.

Jeremy Black MBE (born 30 October 1955) is a British historian and a Professor of History at the University of Exeter.