Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg) Henderson

Ernest Flagg Henderson was an American writer and historian born in New Brighton, Staten Island, in 1861. Sources identify him as educated at Trinity College and Harvard, and as later earning a doctorate from the University of Berlin. He died in 1928.

He is chiefly remembered for history books centered on Germany and medieval Europe. Among the works reliably listed for him are A History of Germany in the Middle Ages, A Short History of Germany, Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages—which he edited and translated—and Germany's Fighting Machine. That mix of narrative history and translated source material suggests a writer who wanted readers not only to learn history, but to encounter the documents behind it.

Henderson's work seems to have traveled widely with readers interested in European history, and some records describe him specifically as a historian whose work took his family across several countries. Even now, his books remain easy to find in major digital libraries, a good sign of his lasting value for readers who like history told plainly and with firsthand sources close at hand.