David W. Blight

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1. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

2. Don Edward Fehrenbacher

   Author of The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s

3. Ira Berlin

   Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

4. William W. Freehling

   Author of The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854, The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836

5. C. Vann Woodward

   Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913

6. Gabor S. Boritt

   Author of Lincoln, the War President, Jefferson Davis's Generals (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books), The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History

7. Edward L. Ayers

   Author of The Promise of the New South, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863

8. Steven Hahn

   Author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

9. Douglas L. Wilson

   Author of Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln before Washington: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ILLINOIS YEARS

10. David W. Blight

    Author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Passages to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in History and Memory, Frederick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee

11. James M. McPherson

    Author of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

12. Peter Novick

    Author of That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

13. Leon F. Litwack

    Author of Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860

14. Kathleen M. Brown

    Author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

15. Gordon S. Wood

    Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution

16. Drew Gilpin Faust

    Author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 (Library of Southern Civilization)

17. Walter Johnson

    Author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

18. Edmund S. Morgan

    Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia

19. Eugene D. Genovese

    Author of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

20. Charles B. Dew

    Author of Apostles of Disunion