Mary Beth Norton

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1. Mary Beth Norton

   Author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800, A People and a Nation: A History of the United States

2. John Putnam Demos

   Author of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

3. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction, Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire

4. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

   Author of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

5. 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, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States,

6. Edmund S. Morgan

   Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

7. Alan Taylor

   Author of American Colonies, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic

8. Jill Lepore

   Author of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

9. Gary B. Nash

   Author of The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840

10. Paul S. Boyer

    Author of Salem Possessed, The Oxford Companion to United States History, The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People

11. Richard L. Bushman

    Author of The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities, From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765, King and people in provincial Massachusetts

12. Gordon S. Wood

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

13. Linda K. Kerber

    Author of Women's America: Refocusing the Past, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America

14. Nancy F. Cott

    Author of The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835, A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Women

15. Gerda Lerner

    Author of The Creation of Patriarchy, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy, The Female Experience: An American Documentary

16. Carol F. Karlsen

    Author of The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

17. Daniel K. Richter

    Author of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization

18. Rhys Isaac

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

19. Marion Lena Starkey

    Author of The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials

20. Kathleen M. Brown

    Author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia