Howard Paul Segal (born July 15, 1948) is an American historian who is a professor of history at the University of Maine.
He specializes in research on the history of American technology and American utopianism.
His best known book, Technological Utopianism in American Culture, Technology in America: A Brief History, was co-written with Alan I Marcus, and named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book.Since 1986, Segal's courses at the University of Maine have included the histories of both technology and science.