Nicholas Lehmann

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1. Taylor Branch

   Author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

2. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, The Story of American Freedom, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

3. The American Society of Magazine Editors

   Author of The Best American Magazine Writing 2003, The Best American Magazine Writing 2002, The Best American Magazine Writing 2000

4. David Levering Lewis

   Author of W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 [1868], W.E.B. DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

5. Leon F. Litwack

   Author of Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow

6. Gordon S. Wood

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

7. C. Vann Woodward

   Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913

8. Nicholas Lehmann

   Author of The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

9. Don Edward Fehrenbacher

   Author of The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

10. David W. Blight

    Author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

11. The American Society of Magazine Editors

    Author of The Best American Magazine Writing 2007, The Best American Magazine Writing 2009, The Best American Magazine Writing 2010

12. Royce Flippin

    Author of The Best American Political Writing 2003, The Best American Political Writing 2006, The Best American Political Writing 2005

13. William W. Freehling

    Author of The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists at Bay 1776-1854, The Road to Disunion. Volume II, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861

14. Eugene D. Genovese

    Author of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

15. John Hope Franklin

    Author of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (2 Vols. in 1)

16. Ira Berlin

    Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

17. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

18. Jill Lepore

    Author of New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

19. Stephen Budiansky

    Author of The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox

20. Eve Arnold

    Author of In America, In China, The Fifties: Photos of America