David S. Reynolds

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1. Eric Foner

   Author of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

2. Daniel Walker Howe

   Author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, The Political Culture of the American Whigs

3. Alan Taylor

   Author of American Colonies, The Civil War of 1812

4. Ira Berlin

   Author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South, The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

5. Walter A. Mcdougall

   Author of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828, Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877

6. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Debate on the Constitution: Part One: September 1787 to February 1788, The Debate on the Constitution, Part Two: January 1788 to August 1788

7. William W. Freehling

   Author of The Road to Disunion. Volume II, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861, The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War

8. H. W. Brands

   Author of American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s

9. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

10. T. J. Jackson Lears

    Author of No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920, Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920 (American History)

11. Robert D. Richardson

    Author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire, William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

12. Perry Miller

    Author of Errand into the Wilderness, The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, The New England Mind: From Colony to Province

13. Witold Rybczynski

    Author of City Life, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century

14. Steven Hahn

    Author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

15. Edmund Wilson

    Author of Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War

16. James M. McPherson

    Author of Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

17. Ann Douglas

    Author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s, The Feminization of American Culture

18. Don Edward Fehrenbacher

    Author of The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

19. Richard H. Brodhead

    Author of Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America

20. Justin Kaplan

    Author of Walt Whitman: A Life