Jack N. Rakove

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1. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, The Origins of American Politics

2. Gordon S. Wood

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

3. Pauline Maier

   Author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, From Resistance to Revolution

4. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

5. Forrest McDonald

   Author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

6. Alan Taylor

   Author of American Colonies, William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, The Civil War of 1812

7. T. H. Breen

   Author of The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People, Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution.

8. 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, Negotiated authorities : essays in colonial political and constitutional history

9. 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, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836

10. Sean Wilentz

    Author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008

11. Stanley M. Elkins

    Author of The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800

12. Ira Berlin

    Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations, Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution

13. Charles A. Beard

    Author of An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of The United States

14. Jack N. Rakove

    Author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, The Beginnings of National Politics

15. Edmund S. Morgan

    Author of American Slavery, American Freedom : The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop

16. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of The Age of Reform, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington

17. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

18. John Ferling

    Author of Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, Independence : the struggle to set America free

19. Harlow Giles Unger

    Author of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness, Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation

20. Charles Sellers

    Author of The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846