Historians
- Julia Adams, economic and social history
- Petrus Johannes Blok, survey
- J. C. H. Blom, survey
- M. R. Boxell, political history
- Pieter Geyl, Dutch revolt; historiography
- Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), cultural history
- Jonathan Israel, Dutch Republic
- Louis De Jong, World War II
- John Lothrop Motley, American historian of the Dutch Revolt
- Jan Romein (1893–1962), theoretical and world history
- Jan de Vries, economic history
- Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Age of Enlightenment, Baruch Spinoza
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Famous quotes containing the word historians:
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.”
—Will Durant (1885–1981)