Vernon Louis Parrington (1871–1929)

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1. 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, Main Currents in American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920 (Main currents in American t

2. Perry Miller

   Author of The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province, Roger Williams: his contribution to the American tradition

3. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Age of Reform

4. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction, The Origins of American Politics

5. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

   Author of The Age of Jackson, Paths of American thought

6. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Genius of American Politics

7. Clinton Rossiter

   Author of The First American Revolution: The American Colonies on the Eve of Independence, Conservatism in America: The Thankless Persuasion

8. Henry Steele Commager

   Author of The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's, Documents of American history

9. Merle Eugene Curti

   Author of The growth of American thought

10. Forrest McDonald

    Author of E Pluribus Unum, We the People : The Economic Origins of the Constitution (Library of Conservative Thought)

11. C. Vann Woodward

    Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Burden of Southern History

12. Charles S. Sydnor

    Author of The Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848

13. Thomas Perkins Abernethy

    Author of The South in the New Nation, 1789-1819

14. Edmund S. Morgan

    Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89

15. Reinhold Niebuhr

    Author of The Irony of American History, Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

16. William R. Taylor

    Author of Cavalier and Yankee: The Old South and American National Character

17. Christopher Hill

    Author of The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

18. Ernest Lee Tuveson

    Author of Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role (Midway Reprint Series)

19. Van Wyck Brooks

    Author of The Flowering of New England

20. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of Builders of the Bay Colony