Jay Winik
New York Times best-selling author and American historian who is best known for his book April 1865: The Month That Saved America.
20th-century american historians
Garry Wills
American author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church
Theodore H. White
American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and the Making of the President series
Barbara W. Tuchman
American historian and author
William L. Shirer
American journalist and war correspondent
Cornelius Ryan
Irish-American journalist and author known mainly for writing popular military history
H. L. Mencken
American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English
William H. McNeill
American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West
David McCullough
American author, narrator, popular historian, and lecturer
William Manchester
American author, biographer, and historian