Ray Raphael

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1. Ray Raphael

   Author of A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence, Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past, The First American Revolution: Before Lexington and Concord

2. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

3. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The American Revolution; a History

4. John E. Findling

   Author of Events That Changed America in the Twentieth Century, Events That Changed America in the Eighteenth Century

5. John Ferling

   Author of A Leap in the Dark, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

6. Ira Berlin

   Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves

7. Michael A. Genovese

   Author of The Watergate Crisis

8. Stewart L. Udall

   Author of The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking The History Of The Old West

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, Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull

10. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Washington's Crossing, Paul Revere's Ride, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas (America: a Cultural History)

11. Ann Hagedorn

    Author of Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad

12. Benson Bobrick

    Author of Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

13. Carol Highsmith

    Author of Civil War Battlefields and Landmarks: A Photographic Tour (Highsmith, Carol M., Photographic Tour.)

14. Olivier Zunz

    Author of Why the American Century?

15. Howard Jones

    Author of Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1897

16. Robert D. Schulzinger

    Author of U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900

17. David Williams

    Author of A People's History of the Civil War: Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom (A New Press People's History)

18. Stephen E. Ambrose

    Author of The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation: From the Louisiana Purchase to Today

19. Carol Berkin

    Author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

20. Joseph J. Ellis

    Author of Founding Brothers, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic