Kenneth M. Stampp (1912–2009)

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1. Kenneth M. Stampp

   Author of The Peculiar Institution, The Causes of the Civil War: Revised Edition (Touchstone), America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink

2. C. Vann Woodward

   Author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Burden of Southern History, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

3. William W. Freehling

   Author of The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836, The Reintegration of American History: Slavery and the Civil War

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, Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World

5. 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

6. Richard Hofstadter

   Author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it, The Age of Reform, Social Darwinism in American Thought

7. David Herbert Donald

   Author of Why the North Won the Civil War, Lincoln Reconsidered: Essays on the Civil War Era, Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

8. Stanley M. Elkins

   Author of The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800, Slavery; a Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life

9. Stephen W. Sears

   Author of Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Chancellorsville, George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon

10. Don Edward Fehrenbacher

    Author of The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s

11. Michael F. Holt

    Author of The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War, Political Crisis of the 1850s, The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

12. James M. McPherson

    Author of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War

13. Gabor S. Boritt

    Author of Why the Confederacy Lost (Gettysburg Civil War Instutute Books), Lincoln, the War President, Jefferson Davis's Generals (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books)

14. David Brion Davis

    Author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823

15. David M. Potter

    Author of The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis

16. Bell Irvin Wiley

    Author of The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union, The Road to Appomattox

17. Bernard Bailyn

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

18. Edmund S. Morgan

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

19. Merrill D. Peterson

    Author of The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun, Lincoln in American Memory

20. Robert H. Wiebe

    Author of The Search for Order, 1877-1920