THE GREATEST HISTORIAN?Clio, Muse of HistoryRare question post....
Who might the greatest historian be ? A great dead white male like
Herodotus ?
Gibbon ?
Thucydides ?
Ranke ? A modern like
Frederick Jackson Turner,
Charles Beard or
Richard Hofstadter ? A " popular" historian like
Stephen Ambrose,
Howard Zinn or
David McCullough ? Venerable and prolific men of letters like
Bernard Lewis,
C. Vann Woodward or
Robert Conquest ? A non-Westerner like
Ibn Khaldun ?
Who has most influenced us in terms of what we think history is, and should be ?