World History
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- Will Durant (1885–1981) - Author of The Story of Civilization
- Ram Sharan Sharma (born 1919) - Author of Vishwa Itihaas ki Bhumika in Hindi.
- Ferdinand Braudel (1902–1985) - Social and economic history
- Francis Fukuyama (born 1955) - "End of history" thesis
- Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944) - World history and geography for younger readers
- William McNeill (born 1917) - Author of The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
- Jackson J. Spielvogel - Pennsylvania State University, author of several major world history textbooks
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) - Wrote landmark text A Study of History
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- John Roberts (historian) (1928–2003) - Author of History of the World
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