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1. Gordon S. Wood

   Author of The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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2. James M. McPherson

   Author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
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3. Michael F. Holt

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

   Author of Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
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5. James T. Patterson

   Author of Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore
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6. William W. Freehling

   Author of Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861, Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816-1836
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7. Doris Kearns Goodwin

   Author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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8. Robert Middlekauff

   Author of The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
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9. Joseph J. Ellis

   Author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
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10. Alan Taylor

    Author of William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, American Colonies: The Settling of North America
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11. Pauline Maier

    Author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
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12. Sean Wilentz

    Author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850
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13. Robert V. Remini

    Author of Henry Clay : Statesman for the Union, At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire [3-volume set]
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14. Charles Grier Sellers

    Author of The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
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15. Robert William Fogel

    Author of Without consent or contract : the rise and fall of American slavery
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16. Conrad Wright

    Author of A Stream of Light: A Short History of American Unitarianism, The Beginnings of Unitarianism in America, Walking Together: Polity and Participation in Unitarian Universalist Churches
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17. Bernard Bailyn

    Author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
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18. Lynn Hudson Parsons

    Author of The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828
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19. David M. Potter

    Author of The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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20. Edmund S. Morgan

    Author of American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia, Roger Williams: The Church and the State, The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
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21. David M. Kennedy

    Author of Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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22. Drew Gilpin Faust

    Author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 (Library of Southern Civilization)
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23. Ron Chernow

    Author of Alexander Hamilton, Washington: A Life
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24. Joanne B. Freeman

    Author of Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
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25. Harry L. Watson

    Author of Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America
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26. Jon Meacham

    Author of American Lion
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27. Marvin Meyers

    Author of The Jacksonian Persuasion
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28. David Stephen Heidler

    Author of Henry Clay: The Essential American, Old Hickory's War
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29. H. W. Brands

    Author of American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
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30. Cynthia Grant Tucker

    Author of Prophetic Sisterhood: Liberal Women Ministers of the Frontier, 1880-1930
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31. David Hackett Fischer

    Author of Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Washington's Crossing
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32. George C. Herring

    Author of From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
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33. 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
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34. Richard Hofstadter

    Author of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made it, The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840
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35. Don E. Fehrenbacher

    Author of The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery, Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850s
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36. John A. Buehrens

    Author of A Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism, Our Chosen Faith: An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism, Universalists and Unitarians in America : a people's history
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37. John Ferling

    Author of Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence
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38. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    Author of The Age of Jackson
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39. David B. Quinn

    Author of North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements: The Norse Voyages to 1612
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40. Carol Sheriff

    Author of The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
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41. James Luther Adams

    Author of The Prophethood of All Believers, On Being Human Religiously: Selected Essays in Religion and Society, An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment
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42. George Dangerfield

    Author of The Awakening of American Nationalism, 1815-1828, The Era of Good Feelings
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43. Merrill D. Peterson

    Author of The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
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44. Jean H. Baker

    Author of Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid–Nineteenth Century. (The North's Civil War)
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45. Richard White

    Author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
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46. Louis Filler

    Author of The Crusade against Slavery, 1830-1860
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47. David S. Reynolds

    Author of Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (American History)
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48. David McCullough

    Author of 1776, John Adams, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
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49. David Freeman Hawke

    Author of Everyday Life in Early America, Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776-1860
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50. Jay Winik

    Author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
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