Pauline Maier

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1. 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

2. Gordon S. Wood

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

3. Pauline Maier

   Author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, From Resistance to Revolution, The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams

4. Edmund S. Morgan

   Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

5. Jack N. Rakove

   Author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, The Beginnings of National Politics

6. John Ferling

   Author of Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, A Leap in the Dark, Independence : the struggle to set America free

7. Jack P. Greene

   Author of Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture, Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, Negotiated authorities : essays in colonial political and constitutional history

8. T. H. Breen

   Author of The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People

9. Alan Taylor

   Author of William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, The Civil War of 1812

10. Stanley M. Elkins

    Author of The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800

11. Joyce Appleby

    Author of Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans, Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination

12. Rhys Isaac

    Author of The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790, Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation

13. Lance Banning

    Author of The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology

14. Ira Berlin

    Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution

15. Forrest McDonald

    Author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution

16. Leonard W. Levy

    Author of Origins of the Bill of Rights (Yale Contemporary Law Series), Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side

17. Harlow Giles Unger

    Author of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation

18. Charles A. Beard

    Author of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of The United States

19. Joseph J. Ellis

    Author of American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, First Family: Abigail and John Adams

20. Garry Wills

    Author of Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence