6-History-Historians

Herodotus

He lived -484 to -425.

Thucydides

He lived -460 to -410 and explained Peloponnesian Wars.

Xenophon

He lived -444 to -357.

Livy

He lived -59 to 17.

Lucan

He lived 39 to 65.

Plutarch M

He lived 46 to 120.

Tranquillus

He lived 75 to 160 and wrote about Roman Empire.

Ssu-ma Ch'ien

He lived -145 to -90 and wrote dynasty histories.

Pausanias

He studied legends, customs, and arts.

Tacitus

He lived 56 to 117.

Appian of Alexandria

He lived 95 to 165.

Pseudo-Plutarch

Later Plutarch-of-Delphi Moralia editions included unknown authors, called Pseudo-Plutarch.

Fa-hien

He was Chinese Buddhist historian who traveled through India and Ceylon [399 to 414].

Tabari history

He lived 839 to 923.

Balami

He was vizier at Bokhara [946 to 973].

Mas'udi

He lived ? to 957 and wrote world history.

Voragine J

He lived 1229 to 1298 and wrote about saints.

Ibn Khaldun

He lived 1332 to 1406, was Sufi and politician, and was "father of science of history". History analyzes development of culture through social, political, and economic patterns and causes {unran}.

Pepys S

He lived 1633 to 1703.

Johnson S

He lived 1709 to 1784.

Boswell J

He lived 1740 to 1795.

Gibbon E

He lived 1737 to 1794.

Saint-Simon L

He lived 1675 to 1755.

Carlyle T

He lived 1795 to 1881. Heroes make history {great man theory}, not social forces.

Burton Ri

He lived 1821 to 1890 and translated Kama Sutra and Arabian Nights.

Frobenius L

He lived 1873 to 1938.

Brooks V

He lived 1886 to 1963.

Lawrence TE

He lived 1888 to 1935 and helped King Faisal I of Egypt defeat Ottoman Empire in the Arab revolt.

Trotsky L

He lived 1879 to 1940 and was Bolshevik leader. Stalin exiled him to Mexico and murdered him there.

Durant W

He lived 1885 to 1981.

Hamilton E

She lived 1867 to 1963.

Toynbee A

He lived 1889 to 1975.

Collingwood R

He lived 1889 to 1943, was positivist, and wrote about Roman Britain.

Epistemology

Philosophy, history, and all thinking depend on fundamental assumptions {absolute presupposition}, which form perspective. Absolute presuppositions are neither true nor false. People need to imagine previous-epoch thoughts and actions to understand their practical problems. The idea of agency is basis of the idea of causality.

Barzun J

He lived 1907 to ?.

Tuchman B

She lived 1912 to 1989.

Clark Kenneth

He lived 1903 to 1983.

Fraser A

She lived 1932 to ?.

Roberts J

He lived 1928 to 2003.

6-History-Historians-USA History

Tocqueville A

He lived 1805 to 1859.

Parkman F

He lived 1823 to 1893.

Adams Ja

He lived 1878 to 1949.

Nevins A

He lived 1890 to 1971.

Sandburg C history

He lived 1878 to 1967.

Commager H

He lived 1902 to 1998.

Schlesinger A

He lived 1917 to ?.

Kennan G

He lived 1904 to 2005.

Catton B

He lived 1899 to 1978 and wrote about USA civil war.

Kantor M

He lived 1904 to 1977.

White Th

He lived 1915 to 1986.

Morison S

He lived 1887 to 1976.

Novick P

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