Roger Hertog is Vice Chairman Emeritus
of AllianceBernstein. Formerly President and Chief Operating
Officer of Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, he is Chairman
of the Board of the New-York Historical Society, and serves
on the boards of the American Enterprise Institute and the
New York Public Library. He is founder of the School Choice
Scholarships Foundation.
James Oliver Horton is Benjamin Banneker
Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington
University, a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission,
and the past president of the Organization of American Historians.
Professor Horton was awarded the John Adams Distinguished Fulbright
Chair in American Studies at the University of Leiden in the
Netherlands for the fall semester, 2003. He is author of Free
People of Color: Inside the African American Community,
and co-author (with his wife Lois E. Horton) of In Hope of
Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free
Blacks, 1700-1860; Black Bostonians: Family Life and
Community Struggle in the Antebellum North; Hard Road
to Freedom: The Story of African America and Slavery
and the Making of America. In 2006, he received the President's
Medal from George Washington University.
Kenneth T. Jackson is Director of the
Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History and the Jacques
Barzun Professor of History at Columbia University. He won the
Francis Parkman and Bancroft Prizes for Crabgrass Frontier:
The Suburbanization of the United States. His other books
include The Ku Klux Klan in the City and The Encyclopedia
of New York City. He is a former president of the Urban
History Association, the Society of American Historians, the
Organization of American Historians, and the New-York Historical
Society.
Daniel P. Jordan is President of the
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello.
He is Scholar in Residence at the University of Virginia; author
of Political Leadership in Jefferson's Virginia; and
co-author, with Maurice Duke, of Tobacco Merchant: The Story
of Universal Leaf Tobacco Company. He is a former chairman
of the National Park Service Advisory Board and serves on the
board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan
Professor of History at Stanford University. He won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1999 for Freedom from Fear: The American People
in Depression and War, 1929-1945. He also wrote Birth
Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, for which
he won the Bancroft Prize; Over Here: The First World War
and American Society; The American People in World War
II: Freedom from Fear, Part Two (The Oxford History of the United
States, V. 9); and is editor of The American Spirit:
United States History As Seen by Contemporaries to 1877.
Roger G. Kennedy, Director Emeritus of
the National Park Service, is also Director Emeritus of the
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History
and Vice President of the Ford Foundation. He has written ten
books, including Burr, Hamilton and Jefferson: A Study in
Character; Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers,
Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase; and Wildfire and
Americans. He has also appeared in his own series on the
Discovery Channel.
Roger Kimball is Co-Editor and Co-Publisher
of The New Criterion and a contributor to The Wall
Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement,
The Weekly Standard and The National Review.
He is co-editor (with Hilton Kramer) of Against the Grain:
The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth
Century and author of Lives of the Mind: The Use and
Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse and The
Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art.
Richard C. Levin is President of Yale
University. A specialist in the economics of technological change,
he taught at Yale for two decades before assuming the presidency.
He has written on the patent system, industrial research and
development, and the effects of antitrust and public regulation
on private industry.
Peter Maslowski is a Professor of History
at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the author of several
books, including Armed with Cameras: The American Military
Photographers of World War II; For the Common Defense: A Military
History of the United States of America (with Allan R.
Millett); and Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie
Hooper and the Vietnam War (with Don Winslow). He teaches
U.S. military history.
James M. McPherson is George Henry
Davis '86 Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton
University. His Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
won the Pulitzer Prize in history and his For Cause and
Comrade: Why Men Fought in the Civil War was awarded the
1998 Lincoln Prize. His other books include Abraham Lincoln
and the Second American Revolution; Crossroads of Freedom:
Antietam; and Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg.
He is a past president of the American Historical Association.
Steven Mintz is a fellow at the Center
for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and
the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University
of Houston. An expert on the history of the family, his books
include Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American
Family Life (with Susan Kellogg); Moralists and Modernizers:
America's Pre-Civil War Reformers; The Boisterous Sea
of Liberty (with David Brion Davis); and Huck's Raft:
A History of American Childhood, which won the 2005 Merle
Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians.
John L. Nau, III is President and Chief
Executive Officer of Silver Eagle Distributors, LP, one of the
nation's largest distributors of Anheuser-Busch products. He is chairman
of both the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the
Texas Historical Commission.
Russell P. Pennoyer, a partner in the
investment bank Benedetto, Gartland & Company, is President
of the Achelis/Bodman Foundations. He is a trustee of the New-York
Historical Society and the William T. Grant Foundation and serves
on the executive committee of the Rockefeller University Council.
Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor
at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution. Among her books are The Great School Wars: New
York City, 1805-1973; The Troubled Crusade: American
Education, 1945-1980; National Standards in American
Education: A Citizen's Guide; The Language Police: How
Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn; and Left
Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers founded the Central
Park Conservancy, where she served as president for sixteen
years, before moving on to launch the Cityscape Institute. She
is a former director of Garden History and Landscape Studies
at Bard Graduate Center, and her book The Forests and Wetlands
of New York City won the John Burroughs Medal. She has also
published Frederick Law Olmsted's New York and Landscape
Design: A Cultural and Architectural History.
Elihu Rose is Vice Chairman of Rose Associates,
Inc., a real estate investment and management firm. He is also
adjunct professor in military history at both Columbia University
and New York University. He is involved in many civic organizations
in New York City and serves as Vice Chairman of the Seventh
Regiment Armory Conservancy, Inc.
Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor
of American History at Stanford University, is widely regarded
as one of the nation's leading scholars in three related fields:
the American West, Native American history and environmental
history. Professor White is the author of five books, including
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republic in the
Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, which was named a finalist
for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Among other honors, he is the
recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University
Professor at Brown University, is a scholar of the early American
republic. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of
the American Revolution and the Bancroft Prize for The
Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. His other
books include The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin and Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was Albert Schweitzer
Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at the City University
of New York Graduate Center. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize
in history and a former staff member in the Kennedy White House,
his books include The Age of Jackson; The Crisis of
the Old Order; A Thousand Days; The Imperial Presidency; Robert Kennedy and His Times; The Cycles of American
History; The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a
Multicultural Society; and A Life in the Twentieth Century:
Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950. Professor Schlesinger died in March 2007, having served on the Institute's Advisory Board since its inception in 1994.
Staff
James G. Basker, President of the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History, is the Richard Gilder
Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University.
He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians,
and a trustee of both the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at
Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study
of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. He has published
several books, including Amazing Grace: An Anthology of
Poems about Slavery 1660-1810 and Early American Abolitionists:
A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760-1820.
Lesley S. Herrmann is Executive Director
of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Associate
Editor of History Now, the Gilder Lehrman Institute's
quarterly online journal. Formerly an assistant professor of
Russian literature, she has been an administrator for various
not-for-profit organizations in New York City, including Asphalt
Green and the Municipal Art Society. She is a contributor to
the Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, a board liaison
to the National Council for History Education, a board member
of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, a member
of the American Antiquarian Society, and a fellow of the Morgan
Library.
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