Arthur Schlesinger Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for The Age of Jackson. In 1966 he won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for A Thousand Days, a chronicle of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Schlesinger is professor emeritus of history at City University of New York.

Albert Camarillo, a professor of history at Stanford, is an expert in Mexican American history and in the comparative history of U.S. urban ethnicity. Camarillo is the author of Chicanos in a Changing Society, among other works.

Clayborne Carson, professor of history at Stanford, is the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project and the author of the prize-winning In Struggle: The History of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Gordon Chang, associate professor of history at Stanford, teaches Asian American history and is the author of the prize-winning Friends and Enemies: The United States, China and the Soviet Union.

Patricia Limerick, professor of history at the University of Colorado, is a leading exponent of the “new Western history.” She is president-elect of the American Studies Association and is the author of Legacy of Conquest, among other works.