Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970)

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1. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865

2. Edmund S. Morgan

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3. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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4. Bernard Bailyn

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5. Gordon S. Wood

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6. C. Vann Woodward

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7. William E. Leuchtenburg

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8. Eric Foner

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9. Perry Miller

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10. Sean Wilentz

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11. Christopher Lasch

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12. Robert H. Wiebe

    Author of The Search for Order, 1877-1920
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13. Susan Jacoby

    Author of The Age of American Unreason, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

14. Charles A. Beard

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15. Kenneth M. Stampp

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16. David M. Kennedy

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17. Alan Brinkley

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18. Garry Wills

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19. Jacques Barzun

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20. Peter Gay

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