Talk:History/Catalogs/Historians by area of study

Francis Fukuyama ?

Thanks for this great page, but I just can't understand how does Francis Fukuyama fit any of these categories... Political scientist and philosopher, for sure, but he's not an historian, so I delete his name. --Corentin 16:55, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

Move to History subpage

Let's move this to a subpage of History. Richard Jensen 14:18, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Agreed, unless you have a historiography article, or a historian article. --Larry Sanger 14:22, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Moved to History/Catalogs/List of historians by area of study. --Matt Innis (Talk) 15:06, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Popular writers?

I just took John Keay out of the list of writers of Indian history, because John Keay is more a journalist than a professional historian. As I look over the current list, though, I do see a number of writers who are popular writers and not professional historians. Do we want to keep them on the list?

The non-specialist reader is served if we restrict our list to professional historians, but then I suppose that it is just as well to mark popular writers in some way, or put them in a different part of the list. Thanks, Brian P. Long 10:08, 4 May 2008 (CDT)

yes the popularizers should have their own section. (They are leftovers from Wikipedia....just goes to show we should have started the article from scratch) Richard Jensen 18:18, 4 May 2008 (CDT)