Historian quotes
| Author | # of quotes |
| A. J. P. Taylor | 3 |
| Anita Brookner | 21 |
| Arnold J. Toynbee | 21 |
| Arthur Helps | 21 |
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | 6 |
| B. H. Liddell Hart | 7 |
| Benedetto Croce | 1 |
| Bernard Berenson | 6 |
| Charles Austin Beard | 1 |
| Christopher Lasch | 7 |
| Cleveland Amory | 4 |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | 30 |
| E. J. Hobsbawm | 6 |
| Eduard Zeller | 1 |
| Edward Gibbon | 30 |
| Fernand Braudel | 1 |
| G. M. Trevelyan | 10 |
| George Bancroft | 8 |
| George Kimble | 1 |
| Hannah Arendt | 43 |
| Harold Acton | 1 |
| Henry B. Adams | 30 |
| Henry Steele Commager | 3 |
| Herodotus | 9 |
| Howard Zinn | 3 |
| J. Saunders Redding | 1 |
| James Anthony Froude | 18 |
| James Harvey Robinson | 2 |
| James Truslow Adams | 6 |
| Johan Huizinga | 1 |
| Jules Michelet | 2 |
| Lord Acton | 16 |
| Louis Finkelstein | 1 |
| Michel Foucault | 13 |
| Philip Guedalla | 2 |
| Polybius | 1 |
| Richard Hofstadter | 4 |
| Robert Hewison | 3 |
| Sallust | 14 |
| Sima Qian | 1 |
| Sir Matthew Hale | 2 |
| Tacitus | 35 |
| Thomas B. Macaulay | 21 |
| Thucydides | 6 |
| Will Durant | 23 |
| William Manchester | 13 |