Perry Miller (1905–1963)

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1. Perry Miller

   Author of The Transcendentalists: An Anthology, The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings, Orthodoxy in Massachusetts, 1630-1650

2. Edmund S. Morgan

   Author of The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea

3. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Origins of American Politics, Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study

4. David D. Hall

   Author of Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England, The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, The faithful shepherd; a history of the New England ministry in the seventeenth century

5. Frederick Copleston

   Author of A History of Philosophy, Vol. 2, Part I : Mediaeval Philosophy : Augustine to Bonaventure, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 7, Part II : Modern Philosophy : Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 8, Part II : Modern Philosophy : Bentham to Russell : Idealism in America, The Pragmatist Movement, The Revolt Against Idealism

6. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, The Age of Reform, America at 1750: A Social Portrait

7. Sacvan Bercovitch

   Author of The Puritan Origins of the American Self, The American Jeremiad

8. Gary B. Nash

   Author of Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America (4th Edition), The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution

9. Jon Butler

   Author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People, Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776

10. Nathan O. Hatch

    Author of The Democratization of American Christianity, Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience

11. 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

12. Peter Gay

    Author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, A loss of mastery; Puritan historians in colonial America

13. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of Builders of the Bay Colony, The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England

14. T. H. Breen

    Author of Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution., Character of the Good Ruler (The Norton library, N747)

15. Van Wyck Brooks

    Author of The Flowering of New England, The World of Washington Irving, New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915

16. Henry Farnham May

    Author of The Enlightenment in America, The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917

17. Alan Heimert

    Author of The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology, Religion and the American mind, from the Great Awakening to the Revolution

18. Frank Lambert

    Author of Inventing the "Great Awakening"

19. Vernon Louis Parrington

    Author of Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 1 - The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800, Main Currents in American Thought: Volume 2 - The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860

20. William R. Hutchison

    Author of The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism