I remembered that the title, "Historian of Civilizations," has been bestowed on EE Smith although it more appropriately, in my opinion, belongs to Poul Anderson but we also find that I have posted to this effect before. See the above link.
Details not mentioned there include that:
Anderson's Technic History also presents an account of Merseian civilization, which becomes unified and goes interstellar;
although Ythrians do not have a civilization because, being fliers, they do not build cities, we nevertheless read an account of how they as a species move out into space under the influence of Technic civilization;
Anderson's Time Patrol series shows us human societies from 13,211 BC to 2319 AD with some fragmentary information about later periods like -
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