History
Historians decide what a society is allowed to remember. The scholars indexed here established methods of evidence, recovered suppressed records and wrote the narratives that schools and governments still lean on.
23 indexed lives · 2 Nobel laureates · 19 countries
Where to start
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008The Gulag Archipelago broke the Soviet system's moral standing.
Russia·Literature · HistoryNobel
Svetlana Alexievich
b. 1948Built a new documentary genre from thousands of interviews.
Belarus·Literature · HistoryNobel
Plutarch
46 – 119The biographer who invented the idea that character makes history.
Greece·Literature · History · PhilosophyFull profile
Nobel recognition in History
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1970
- Svetlana Alexievich
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2015