John Lewis Gaddis

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1. Niall Ferguson

   Author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, The Pity of War

2. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, A History of Warfare

3. Gordon S. Wood

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

4. Henry Kissinger

   Author of Diplomacy, Does America Need a Foreign Policy? : Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822

5. 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, Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World

6. Antony Beevor

   Author of The Fall of Berlin 1945, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

7. Samuel P. Huntington

   Author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations (Belknap Press)

8. Max Boot

   Author of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today

9. Richard J. Evans

   Author of The Third Reich in Power, In Defence of History

10. Tony Judt

    Author of Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945

11. James T. Patterson

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

12. Edward Hallett Carr

    Author of What Is History?, Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations

13. William Taubman

    Author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

14. Paul M. Kennedy

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

15. Kenneth N. Waltz

    Author of Man, the State, and War, Theory of International Politics

16. Philip Bobbitt

    Author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

17. George F. Kennan

    Author of Memoirs 1925-1950, American Diplomacy, 1900-1950, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin

18. Bernard Bailyn

    Author of The ideological origins of the American Revolution, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction

19. Alistair Horne

    Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

20. George C. Herring

    Author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 with Poster, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776