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 Emeritus 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.
Thomas LeBien is Publisher of Hill
& Wang, an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and a
member of the board of directors of the Louis and Virginia
Clemente Foundation.
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 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.
Clement Alexander Price is the Board
of Governors Distingushed Service Professor of History and
Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern
Experience at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. Dr. Price
is the foremost authority on the black New Jersey past by
virtue of his Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History
of Afro-Americans in New Jersey (1980) and numerous other
scholarly works. He has been the recipient of many awards
for academic and community service, including New Jersey Professor
of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of
Education (CASE) in 1999. Dr. Price is a member of the Scholarly
Advisory Committee to the National Museum of African American
History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.
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.
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.
Michael Serber recently retired from
the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, where he
served as Education Coordinator and Senior Education Fellow
from 2001-2007, following a long career as a history teacher,
department chair, and as founding principal (1996-2001) of
the Academy of American Studies in Queens, New York. Within
two years of its founding, the Academy was rated one of the
top ten schools in New York City. Mr. Serber is the co-author
of two textbooks: U.S. History and Government, and
Our World, as well as a reviewing text, Reviewing
U.S. History and Government.
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. (Past Advisor)
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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