David Hackett Fischer

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1. David Hackett Fischer

   Author of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Paul Revere's Ride, The Great Wave

2. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, The Origins of American Politics

3. Joseph J. Ellis

   Author of Founding Brothers, His Excellency: George Washington, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

4. Gordon S. Wood

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

5. John Ferling

   Author of Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, A Leap in the Dark, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence

6. David McCullough

   Author of John Adams, 1776, Truman

7. Alan Taylor

   Author of American Colonies, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, The Divided Ground

8. Rick Atkinson

   Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle

9. Ron Chernow

   Author of Alexander Hamilton, Washington: A Life

10. Daniel J. Boorstin

    Author of The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Americans: The National Experience, The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

11. James M. McPherson

    Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

12. Pauline Maier

    Author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, From Resistance to Revolution

13. Edmund S. Morgan

    Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

14. Fernand Braudel

    Author of 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, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2

15. Jay Winik

    Author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

16. Thomas J. Fleming

    Author of Washington's Secret War, The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown

17. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought, America at 1750: A Social Portrait

18. John Putnam Demos

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

19. Edmund Morris

    Author of Theodore Rex, Colonel Roosevelt

20. Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln