Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the social sciences and related occupations]
7. social scientists
8. [people in history and related occupations]
9. historians

Anotations

Scope note:

Persons who engage in the study and writing of history based on the critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from authentic material, and the synthesis of particulars into narratives that will stand the test of critical methods. Also, persons officially appointed to write a history or to record the continuing history of a country, group, or institution.