Historian

==Further reading==
* ''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 [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06298 vol 1 online], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06298 vol 2 online]
* Allison, William Henry. ''A guide to historical literature'' (1931) comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930. [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=acls;cc=acls;view=toc;idno=heb06297.0001.001 online edition]
* Barnes, Harry Elmer''A 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, {{ISBN|0415030846}} pp; 39 chapters by experts
* 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, {{ISBN|0-226-07278-9}}
* 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 {{ISBN|0-631-14708-X}}.
*Gilderhus, Mark T. ''History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction'', 2002, {{ISBN|0-13-044824-9}}
*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 {{ISBN|1-884964-33-8}}
* Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. ''A Companion to Western Historical Thought'' Blackwell 2006. 520pp; {{ISBN|978-1-4051-4961-7}}.
* Todd, Richard B. ed. ''Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500–1960'', (2004). Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004 {{ISBN|1-85506-997-0}}.
* Woolf D. R. ''A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing'' (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 vol 1998) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0815315147/ excerpt and text search]