List of People From Wisconsin - History

History

  • Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002), historian (Whitewater)
  • William Cronon (born 1954), environmental historian (Madison)
  • Lyman Draper (1815–1891), historian and librarian (Madison)
  • Harvey Goldberg (1922–1987), historian (Madison)
  • George Mosse (1918–1999), social and cultural historian (Madison)
  • Gerhard Brandt Naeseth (1913–1994) – founder of the Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library. (Madison)
  • James Breck Perkins (1847–1910), historian and U.S. Congressman (St. Croix Falls)
  • David Schoenbaum (born 1935), historian and social scientist (Milwaukee)
  • Kenneth M. Stampp (1912–2009), historian (Milwaukee)
  • John Toland (1912–2004), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author (La Crosse)
  • Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), historian, known for his "Frontier Thesis" (Portage)
  • T. Harry Williams (1909–1979), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian (Hazel Green)

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