Editing List of historians (section)

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* [[P. B. Waite]],  (1922 –2020), Canadian politics
*[[John Waiko]] (born 1944), Papua New Guinea
*[[J. Samuel Walker]] (living), nuclear energy and weapons
*[[Immanuel Wallerstein]] (1930–2019), world-systems theory
*[[Retha Warnicke]] (born 1939), Tudor and gender issues
*[[Peter Watson (intellectual historian)|Peter Watson]] (born 1943), [[intellectual history]]
*[[Eugen Weber]] (1925–2007), modern French
*[[Cicely Veronica Wedgwood]] (1910–1997), 16th and 17th-century Europe
*[[Hans-Ulrich Wehler]] (1931–2014), 19th-century German social
*[[Russell Weigley]] (1930–2004), military
*[[Gerhard Weinberg]] (born 1928), Germany, World War II
*[[Roberto Weiss]] (1906–1969), Renaissance
*[[Emma J. Wells]] (born 1986), [[church history]]
*[[Frank Welsh (writer)|Frank Welsh]] (1931–2023), British imperial
*[[Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich]] (1901–1979), Germany, US history, Ancient Greece
*[[Christopher Whatley]] (living), Scotland
*[[John Wheeler-Bennett]] (1902–1975), Germany
*[[John Henry Whyte|John Whyte]] (1928–1990), Northern Ireland, divided societies
*[[Christopher Wickham]] (born 1950), medieval
* [[Robert H. Wiebe]] (1930–2000), American business and society
*[[Toby Wilkinson]] (born 1969), ancient Egypt
*[[Eric Williams]] (1911–1981), Guiana, Caribbean
*[[Glanmor Williams]] (1920–2005), Wales
*[[Glyndwr Williams]] (1932–2022), exploration
*[[William Appleman Williams]] (1921–1990), US diplomacy
*[[John Willingham]] (born 1946), Texas
*[[Andrew Wilson (historian)|Andrew Wilson]] (born 1961), Ukraine
*[[Clyde N. Wilson]] (born 1941), 19th-century US South
*[[Ian Wilson (writer)|Ian Wilson]] (born 1941), religious
*[[Keith Windschuttle]] (born 1942), Australia; historiography
*[[Heinrich August Winkler|Henry Winkler]] (born 1938), German
*[[Robert S. Wistrich]] (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
*[[John Baptist Wolf|John B. Wolf]] (1907–1996), French
*[[Michael Wolffsohn]] (born 1947), German Jewish
*[[Herwig Wolfram]] (born 1934), medieval
*[[John Womack]] (born 1937), Latin American history, [[Mexico history]]
*[[Gordon S. Wood]] (born 1933), American Revolution
*[[Ellen Meiksins Wood]] (1942–2016), Marxist political and economic history 
*[[Michael Wood (historian)|Michael Wood]] (born 1948), England
*[[C. Vann Woodward]] (1908–1999), American South
*[[Daniel Woolf]] (born 1958), Britain, historiography
*[[Lucy Worsley]] (born 1973), Britain
*[[Gordon Wright (historian)|Gordon Wright]] (1912–2000), modern France
*[[Lawrence C. Wroth]] (1884–1970), US printing
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