List of Jewish American historians

• Cyrus Adler
• Herbert Aptheker
• Bernard Bailyn
• Daniel J. Boorstin
• Norman Cantor
• Ariel Durant
• Stanley Elkins
• Richard Ettinghausen, art historian
• Norman Finkelstein, author and historian
• Robert Fogel, economist and historian
• Peter Gay
• Yosef Goldman
• Deborah Hertz
• Raul Hilberg
• Richard Hofstadter
• Joseph Jacobs, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia
• Gabriel Kolko
• Bernard Lewis
• Deborah Lipstadt
• John Lukacs, Hungarian-born historian
• Erwin Panofsky
• Richard Popkin, historian of philosophy
• Meyer Schapiro
• Rosa Levin Toubin, historian of Jewish Texan history
• Barbara Tuchman
• Stanley M. Wagner, rabbi and academic
• Howard Zinn