Robert Darnton

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1. Robert Darnton

   Author of The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

2. Nicholas A. Basbanes

   Author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book-Hunter in the 21st Century

3. Carlo Ginzburg

   Author of The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century

4. Simon Schama

   Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, The Embarrassment of Riches, Dead Certainties : Unwarranted Speculations

5. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 1, The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3

6. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

   Author of Montaillou : Cathars and Catholics in a French village, 1294-1324, Carnival in Romans, The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga

7. Peter Gay

   Author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom, Education of the Senses

8. E. J. Hobsbawm

   Author of The Age of Empire: 1875-1914, On History, Bandits

9. Natalie Zemon Davis

   Author of The Return of Martin Guerre, Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives, Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis

10. Alberto Manguel

    Author of A History of Reading, The Library at Night, A Reader on Reading

11. Georges Lefebvre

    Author of The Coming of the French Revolution, Great Fear of 1789

12. Christopher Hill

    Author of The world turned upside down: radical ideas during the English Revolution, The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

13. Lynn Hunt

    Author of Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, The New Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture), The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Centennial Book)

14. William H. McNeill

    Author of Plagues and Peoples

15. Roger Chartier

    Author of The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries, The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution (Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution), Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century (Material Texts)

16. Alexis de Tocqueville

    Author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution

17. E.P. Thompson

    Author of Making of the English Working Class

18. William Doyle

    Author of The Oxford History of the French Revolution, Origins of the French Revolution, Old Regime France: 1648-1788 (The Short Oxford History of France)

19. Elizabeth L Eisenstein

    Author of The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, The printing press as an agent of change

20. Benedict Anderson

    Author of Imagined Communities