Stephen B. Oates

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1. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction

2. Stephen B. Oates

   Author of With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861, The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865

3. William Faulkner

   Author of Go Down, Moses, The Hamlet, William Faulkner : Novels 1930-1935 : As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (Library of America)

4. Bruce Catton

   Author of A stillness at Appomattox, Mr. Lincoln's Army, Glory Road

5. David Herbert Donald

   Author of Lincoln, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era, We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends

6. Stephen W. Sears

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

7. Martin Luther King, Jr.

   Author of Why we can't wait, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. Jeffry D. Wert

   Author of General James Longstreet; the Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier, Gettysburg, Day Three, From Winchester to Cedar Creek

9. Harold Holzer

   Author of Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861

10. Ronald C. White Jr.

    Author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech : The Second Inaugural, The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words

11. Eugene D. Genovese

    Author of Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South, The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation

12. Harry W. Pfanz

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

13. Mark E. Neely, Jr.

    Author of The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America

14. Garry Wills

    Author of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government

15. William Lee Miller

    Author of Lincoln's Virtues

16. T. Harry Williams

    Author of Lincoln and His Generals, P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray

17. Thomas Wolfe

    Author of Look Homeward, Angel, You Can't Go Home Again, The Web and the Rock

18. 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

19. David McCullough

    Author of John Adams, Truman

20. William C. Davis

    Author of Lincoln's Men: How President Lincoln Became Father to an Army and a Nation, The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy