The salons have been studied in depth by a mixture of feminist, Marxist, cultural, social and intellectual historians.

Diana Pinto (born 1949) is an intellectual historian and writer living in Paris.

Christopher Phelps (born 1965) is an American political and intellectual historian of the twentieth century.

His main academic strengths were as a biographer and as an intellectual historian.

He was influential as an intellectual historian, and particularly for his discussion of historicism.

Peter Watson (born 1943) is an intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas.

Westbrook has been described by philosophers as "our best intellectual historian of pragmatism.

He has been called "the most intellectual historian in the United States during the Cold War".

Generally speaking, intellectual historians seek to place concepts and texts from the past in multiple contexts.

Having begun as an intellectual historian of revolutionary America, he has become a presidential biographer.