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• Antiquarians
• Archaeologists
• Art historians
• Film historians
• Historians, Arab
• Jewish historians
• Literary historians
• Medievalists
• Muslim historians
• Aaron, Daniel, 1912-2016
• Adams, Henry, 1838-1918
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
• Briscoe, Gordon
• Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
• Dempsey, Hugh A. (Hugh Aylmer), 1929-2022
• Dyce, Alexander, 1798-1869
• Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
• Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894
• Josephus, Flavius
• Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
• Morris, William, 1834-1896
• Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637
• Ramsay, William Mitchell, Sir, 1851-1939
• Rosengarten, Ruth
• Russo, Vito
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007
• Stukeley, William, 1687-1765
• Wood, Anthony à, 1632-1695

• Historiographers

• Always an Adventure: An Autobiography (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Hugh A. Dempsey (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Always an Adventure: An Autobiography (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), by Hugh A. Dempsey (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family (2010), by Gordon Briscoe (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family (2010), by Gordon Briscoe (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Sir William M. Ramsay, Archaeologist and New Testament Scholar: A Survey of His Contribution to the Study of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, c1966), by W. Ward Gasque, contrib. by F. F. Bruce (PDF with commentary at biblicalstudies.org.uk)

• Josephus, by Norman Bentwich (Gutenberg text)

• There Will Be Dragons (2003), by John Ringo (multiple formats at Baen Free Library)

• Les Historiens (in French; Paris: Maison Quantin, 1888), by J. Barbey d'Aurevilly
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Galfrid von Monmouth und die Frühmittelenglischen Chronisten (dissertation in German; Berlin: Mayer und Müller, 1918), by Hertha Brandenburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century (2004), by Thomas Bender, Philip M. Katz, Colin Palmer, and American Historical Association (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• The Education of Historians in the United States (1962), by Dexter Perkins and John L. Snell (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman (hypertext edition), by David Levin (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Jacob Lassner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Jacob Lassner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Jacob Lassner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Education of Henry Adams (Washington: The author, 1907), by Henry Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by Henry Adams, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Roman Spring: Memoirs (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1934), by Margaret Chanler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (New York: Macmillan, 1919), by Henry Adams, contrib. by Brooks Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Literary Industries: A Memoir, by Hubert Howe Bancroft, contrib. by William Nemos (PDF with commentary at loc.gov)

• Froude's Life of Carlyle (abridged and annotated edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by James Anthony Froude, ed. by John Clubbe
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 (new edition, 2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1891), by James Anthony Froude
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Thomas Carlyle (third edition; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1903), by G. K. Chesterton and J. E. Hodder-Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Carlyle and Mill, Mystic and Utilitarian (New York: Columbia University Press, 1924), by Emery Neff
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Thomas Carlyle, by John Nichol (Gutenberg text)
• On the Choice of Books (with a long biographical essay on the author), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Richard Herne Shepherd (Gutenberg text)
• Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley
  • Volume I (Robespierre; Carlyle; Byron; Macaulay; Emerson): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Vauvenargugs; Turgot; Condorcet; Joseph de Maistre): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (On Popular Culture; The Death of Mr. Mill; Mr. Mill's Autobiography; The Life of George Eliot; On Pattison's Memoirs; Harriet Martineau; W. R. Greg: A Sketch; France in the Eighteenth Century; The Expansion of England; Auguste Comte): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A New Calendar of Great Men; John Stuart Mill: An Annversary; Lecky on Democracy; A Historical Romance; Democracy and Reaction; Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org
• Simplicity and Tolstoy (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1912), by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Reminiscences of Alexander Dyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1972), by Alexander Dyce, ed. by Richard J. Schrader (PDF at Ohio State)

• Memoirs of My Life and Writings, by Edward Gibbon (Gutenberg text)
• The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon, With Various Observations and Excursions, by Himself (London: Methuen and Co., 1900), by Edward Gibbon, ed. by George Birkbeck Norman Hill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philip Gilbert Hamerton: An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894, by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and Eugénie Hamerton (Gutenberg text)

• Josephus, by Norman Bentwich (Gutenberg text)

• Power (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929), by Lion Feuchtwanger, trans. by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jew Süss (14th edition; London: M. Secker, 1927), by Lion Feuchtwanger, trans. by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876), by George Otto Trevelyan, contrib. by Thomas Macaulay
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Gladstone on Macleod and Macaulay: Two Essays (Toronto: Belford Bros., 1876), by W. E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Miscellanies (4 volumes, published by Macmillan 1904-1909), by John Morley
  • Volume I (Robespierre; Carlyle; Byron; Macaulay; Emerson): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Vauvenargugs; Turgot; Condorcet; Joseph de Maistre): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (On Popular Culture; The Death of Mr. Mill; Mr. Mill's Autobiography; The Life of George Eliot; On Pattison's Memoirs; Harriet Martineau; W. R. Greg: A Sketch; France in the Eighteenth Century; The Expansion of England; Auguste Comte): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Machiavelli; Guicciardini; A New Calendar of Great Men; John Stuart Mill: An Annversary; Lecky on Democracy; A Historical Romance; Democracy and Reaction; Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Of William Morris and His Work (Easter Art Annual, Art Journal extra number; London: J. S. Virtue and Co., 1899), by Lewis F. Day
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902), by Elisabeth Luther Cary (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Mirrour of True Nobility and Gentility: Being the Life of the Renowned Nicolaus Claudius Fabricius, Lord of Pieresk, Senator of the Parliament at Aix (London: Printed by J. Streater for H. Moseley, 1657), by Pierre Gassendi, trans. by William Rand (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sir William M. Ramsay, Archaeologist and New Testament Scholar: A Survey of His Contribution to the Study of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, c1966), by W. Ward Gasque, contrib. by F. F. Bruce (PDF with commentary at biblicalstudies.org.uk)

• Second Chance: My Life in Things (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Ruth Rosengarten (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2011), by Michael R. Schiavi (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Highbrow in American Politics: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Role of the Intellectual in Politics (1982), by David B. Kopel (PDF files with commentary at davekopel.com)

• William Stukeley: Science, Religion, and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (c2002), by David Boyd Haycock (HTML at Newton Project; sections may be listed out of order)

• The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632-1695, Described by Himself (5 volumes; Oxford: Printed for the Oxford Historical Society, at the Clarendon Press, 1891-1900), by Anthony à Wood, ed. by Andrew Clark
  • Volume I (1632-1663): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1664-1681): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (1682-1695): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Addenda): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Indexes): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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