Editing List of historians (section)

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*[[Alain Badiou]] (born 1937), history of philosophy
*[[Nigel Bagnall]] (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece
*[[Bernard Bailyn]] (1922–2020), early America; Atlantic
*[[Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli]] (1900–1975), archaeology and art history
*[[David E. Barclay]] (born 1948), German
*[[Juliet Barker]] (born 1958), late Middle Ages, literary biography
*[[Frank Barlow (historian)|Frank Barlow]] (1911–2009), medieval biography
*[[Linda Diane Barnes]] (living), US
*[[Geoffrey Barraclough]] (1908–1984), Germany, world
*[[G.W.S. Barrow]] (1924–2013), Scotland
*[[Walter Bartel]] (1904–1992), German political history
*[[H. Arnold Barton]] (1929–2016), Scandinavia
*[[Paul R. Bartrop]] (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide
*[[Jacques Barzun]] (1907–2012), cultural
*[[Jorge Basadre]] (1903–1980), Peru
*[[Leôncio Basbaum]] (1907–1969), Brazil
*[[Hanna Batatu]] (1926–2000), Palestinian, modern Iraq
*[[K. Jack Bauer]] (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime
*[[Roland Bauer]] (1928–2017), Germany, political history
*[[Yehuda Bauer]] (1926–2024), Holocaust
*[[Stephen B. Baxter]] (1929–2020), late 17th – early 18th-century English
*[[David Bebbington]] (born 1949), Evangelicalism
*[[Antony Beevor]] (born 1946), World War II
*[[David Bell (historian)|David Bell]] (living), Early Modern France, cultural history
*[[James Belich (historian)|James Belich]] (born 1956), New Zealand
*[[Esther Benbassa]] (1950-), Jewish history
*[[Abdelmajid Benjelloun (historian)|Abdelmajid Benjelloun]] (born 1944), Morocco
*[[Laurence Bergreen]] (born 1950), biography
*[[Isaiah Berlin]] (1909–1997), ideas
* [[Rowland Berthoff]] (1921– 2001), American culture
*[[Giuseppe Berti]] (1901–1979), Italy, political history
*[[Michael Beschloss]] (born 1955), Cold War
*[[Juliette Bessis]], (1925–2017), Tunisia
*[[Nicholas Bethell]] (1938–2007), Soviet
*[[Charles Bettelheim]] (1913–2006), political history, economic history
*[[Robert Bickers]] (born 1964), modern China and colonialism
*[[Anthony Birley]] (1937–2020), Ancient Rome
*[[Yael Bitrán]] (born 1965), musicology
*[[David Blackbourn]] (born 1949), German
*[[Geoffrey Blainey]] (born 1930), Australian
*[[Lesley Blanch]] (1904–2007), English
*[[Gisela Bock]] (born 1942), German feminist
*[[Brian Bond]] (born 1936), British military
*[[Chrystelle Trump Bond]] (1938–2020), US dance historian
*[[Robert Bonfil]], (1937-), Jewish history
*[[Daniel J. Boorstin]] (1914–2004), US
*[[Georges Bordonove]] (1920–2007), France
*[[Alfredo Bosi]] (1936–2021), Brazilian literature
*[[John Boswell]] (1947–1994), medievalist
*[[Robert Bothwell]] (born 1944), Canada
*[[Gérard Bouchard]] (born 1943), Canada
*[[Joanna Bourke]] (born 1963), military
*[[Steven Bowman]], Jewish history
*[[Paul S. Boyer]] (1935–2012), US morality
*[[Karl Dietrich Bracher]] (1922–2016), modern German
*[[Jim Bradbury]] (1937–2023), Middle Ages
*[[James C. Bradford]] (born 1944), US naval
*[[David Brading]] (1936–2024), [[Mexican history]]
*[[William Brandon (author)|William Brandon]] (1914–2002), [[American West]]
*[[Ray Brassier]], (born 1965), philosophical history
*[[Fernand Braudel]] (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean
*[[Ahron Bregman]] (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict
*[[Michael Brenner (historian)|Michael Brenner]] (1964-), Jewish history
*[[Robert Brenner]] (born 1943), US history, economic history, agriculture
*[[Bridget Brereton]] (born 1946), Trinidad and Tobago
*[[Holly Brewer]] (born 1964), early American history
*[[Carl Bridenbaugh]] (1903–1992), American colonial
*[[Asa Briggs]] (1921–2016), British social history
*[[Alan Brinkley]] (1949–2019), American 1930s
*[[David Brody (historian)|David Brody]] (born 1930), American labor
*[[Timothy Brook (historian)|Timothy Brook]] (born 1951), China
*[[Martin Broszat]] (1926–1989), Nazi Germany
*[[Pierre Broué]] (1926–2005), Trotskyism 
*[[Gregory S. Brown]] (living), Early Modern French History, Cultural History
*[[Peter Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]] (born 1935), medieval
*[[Christopher Browning]] (born 1944), Holocaust
*[[Aleks Buda]] (1910–1993), Albania
*[[Nikolai Bugay]] (born 1941), Soviet Union 
*[[Sérgio Buarque de Holanda]] (1902–1982), Brazil
*[[Alan Bullock]] (1914–2004), 1940s, Hitler studies
*[[Colin Bundy]] (born 1944), South Africa
*[[Peter Burke (historian)|Peter Burke]] (born 1937), modern period, cultural history
*[[Michael Burlingame (historian)|Michael Burlingame]] (born 1941), Abraham Lincoln
*[[Briton C. Busch]] (1936–2004), British diplomatic and US maritime
*[[Richard Bushman]] (born 1931), US colonial and Mormon
*[[Jon Butler]] (born 1940), US religion
*[[Herbert Butterfield]] (1900–1979), historiography
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