Richard L. Bushman

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1. Hugh Nibley

   Author of Approaching Zion (The Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol 9), Lehi in the Desert, the World of the Jaredites, There Were Jaredites (Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol 5), Enoch the Prophet (Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, Vol 2)

2. James E. Talmage

   Author of Jesus the Christ, Articles of Faith, The Great Apostasy

3. Richard L. Bushman

   Author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism

4. Leonard J. Arrington

   Author of The Mormon Experience: A HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS, Brigham Young, American Moses, Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons

5. Edmund S. Morgan

   Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution

6. Perry Miller

   Author of The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Roger Williams: his contribution to the American tradition

7. D. Michael Quinn

   Author of Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power (Mormon Hierarchy), The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power (Mormon Hierarchy)

8. Jack P. Greene

   Author of Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture, Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, Negotiated authorities : essays in colonial political and constitutional history

9. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century, Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire

10. Stephen E. Robinson

    Author of Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News, Following Christ: The Parable of the Divers and More Good News

11. Terryl L. Givens

    Author of By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture, The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy

12. T. H. Breen

    Author of The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution., Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (Galaxy Books)

13. Joseph Smith

    Author of Lectures on Faith, History of the Church, An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith (2nd ed)

14. Bruce R. McConkie

    Author of Mormon Doctrine, Promised Messiah: The First Coming of Christ

15. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Author of Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor

16. Gregory A. Prince

    Author of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism

17. Robert Blair St. George

    Author of Conversing by Signs: Poetics of Implication in Colonial New England Culture, Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America

18. Alan Taylor

    Author of William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors : The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820

19. Gordon B. Hinckley

    Author of Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes, Faith the Essence of True Religion

20. David D. Hall

    Author of Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England, The faithful shepherd; a history of the New England ministry in the seventeenth century