Allan Nevins (1890–1971)

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1. Allan Nevins

   Author of The War for the Union, Vol. 3: The Organized War, 1863-1864, The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863, Ordeal of the Union, Vols. 5-8: The War For The Union, Parts I & II

2. Dumas Malone

   Author of The sage of Monticello, Jefferson and the Rights of Man : Jefferson and His Time Volume Two, Jefferson the President: Second Term 1805 - 1809 - Volume V (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 5)

3. Bruce Catton

   Author of A stillness at Appomattox, Terrible Swift Sword, Grant Takes Command

4. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville

5. James Thomas Flexner

   Author of George Washington, the Forge of Experience, 1732-1775, George Washington and the New Nation, 1783-1793, George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775-1783

6. Douglas Southall Freeman

   Author of Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command, LEE'S LIEUTENANTS (VOL. II) (Lee's Lieutenants : a Study in Command), R.E. Lee : a biography

7. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War

8. Shelby Foote

   Author of The Civil War, a narrative : Fort Sumter to Perryville, The Civil War, a narrative : Red River to Appomattox, The Civil War, A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian

9. Robert V. Remini

   Author of Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821, Henry Clay; Statesman for the Union, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832

10. Harry W. Pfanz

    Author of Gettysburg - The Second Day, Gettysburg - Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg - The First Day

11. David Herbert Donald

    Author of Why the North Won the Civil War, We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

12. Gordon C. Rhea

    Author of The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7-12, 1864, To the North Anna River

13. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America, The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860, Builders of the Bay Colony

14. Gary W. Gallagher

    Author of The Third Day at Gettysburg & Beyond (Military Campaigns of the Civil War), The Wilderness Campaign (Military Campaigns of the Civil War)

15. 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

16. C. Vann Woodward

    Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

17. Margaret Leech

    Author of Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, In the Days of McKinley

18. Kenneth M. Stampp

    Author of The Peculiar Institution, The Causes of the Civil War: Revised Edition (Touchstone), America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink

19. Jay Luvaas

    Author of The U.S. Army War College Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville & Fredericksburg

20. Arnold Hauser

    Author of The Social History of Art, v.3: Rococo, classicism and romanticism, The Social History of Art, v. 1: From prehistoric times to the Middle Ages