Paul S. Boyer (1935–2012)

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1. Paul S. Boyer

   Author of Salem Possessed, Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920

2. John Putnam Demos

   Author of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

3. Edmund S. Morgan

   Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea

4. Mary Beth Norton

   Author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, A People and a Nation: A History of the United States, A People & A Nation: Volume 1: To 1877

5. Carol F. Karlsen

   Author of The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

6. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Revolutionary Characters, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787

7. Perry Miller

   Author of Errand into the Wilderness, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province

8. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Debate on the Constitution, Part Two: January 1788 to August 1788, The Origins of American Politics

9. Gary B. Nash

   Author of Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America (4th Edition), The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution

10. Marion Lena Starkey

    Author of The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials

11. Eric Foner

    Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, A Short History of Reconstruction, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

12. David D. Hall

    Author of Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1692

13. George M. Marsden

    Author of Fundamentalism and American Culture (New Edition), Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, Religion and American Culture

14. James T. Patterson

    Author of Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore

15. Daniel J. Boorstin

    Author of The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Americans: The National Experience, The Americans

16. Sean Wilentz

    Author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850

17. Peter N. Stearns

    Author of The Encyclopedia of World History

18. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The Age of Reform, America at 1750: A Social Portrait

19. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, Over Here: The First World War and American Society

20. Norman Cohn

    Author of The Pursuit of the Millennium, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith