William Cronon

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1. William Cronon

   Author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

2. Richard White

   Author of The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West, The Roots of Dependency: Subsistance, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos

3. Donald Worster

   Author of Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination

4. John Putnam Demos

   Author of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony

5. Gordon S. Wood

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

6. Daniel K. Richter

   Author of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization

7. Rhys Isaac

   Author of The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation

8. 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

9. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

10. Patricia Nelson Limerick

    Author of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West, Trails: Toward a New Western History

11. Edmund Wilson

    Author of Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s: The Shores of Light / Axel's Castle / Uncollected Reviews, Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s: The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow, Classics and

12. Ted Widmer

    Author of American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War, American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton (Library of America)

13. Lizabeth Cohen

    Author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939

14. William Maxwell

    Author of William Maxwell: Early Novels and Stories, William Maxwell: Later Novels and Stories: The Château / So Long, See You Tomorrow (Library of America #184)

15. James Agee

    Author of James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America), Film Writing and Selected Journalism

16. Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

    Author of Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough Riders/An Autobiography (Library of America), Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches (Library of America)

17. Kathleen M. Brown

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

18. Roderick Nash

    Author of Wilderness and the American Mind, The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics (History of American Thought and Culture)

19. Peter Novick

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

20. Edmund S. Morgan

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