Here are some examples of towering figures in the field:

1. Guicciardini, Dialogue on the Government of Florence (1521)
2. Gordon Wood, The Historical Sense (2008)
3. Jeffrey Burton Russell, On Idealist History
4. Simon Schama, Past is the Illumination of Human Experience (2008)
5. Gordon Wood, The Idea of America (2011)
6. C.V. Wedgewood, Truth and Opinion (1959)
7. Pierre Goubert, Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen (1966)
8. Goubert, PART 2
9. Jules Michelet, History of the Revolution (c1850)
10. A History of Britain Extras by Simon Schama
11. Fritz Stern, Five Germanys I Have Known (2016)
12. Marc Bloch, The Historian’s Craft (1941)
13. Niall Ferguson, Can Comparative History Inform U.S. Policy?
14. Tony Judt, What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy
15. Ibn Warraq, A Defense of Western Civilization
16. How Hollywood’s Feel-Good Story-telling Perverts History
17. Why Historians Should Write Historical Fiction
18. Kieth Windshuttle’s Retort to Po-Mo History
19. Some Words from the Masters (videos)
20. Miscellaneous Bits