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  Ron Chernow

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  Nick Robins

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  Jeanne Theoharis

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  Ansley T. Erickson

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  Thomas G. Andrews

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  Jonathan Horn

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  Lily Geismer

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  Walter Johnson

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  Lisa Brooks

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  Kenneth R. Bartlett

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  Douglas A. Blackmon

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  Steve Fraser

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  Darren Dochuk

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  Joshua D. Rothman

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  Peggy Pascoe

  Peggy Ann Pascoe was an American historian. She was the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. She earned a B.A. from Montana State University in 1977, an M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1980, and a Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1986. She was a member of the University of Oregon History Department from 1996 until her death on July 23, 2010.

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  Marjorie J. Spruill

  Dr. Marjorie J. Spruill is a historian who specializes in women and politics from the woman suffrage movement to the present, and in the history of the American South. Recently retired from teaching, she is a Professor Emerita at the University of South Carolina. Spruill previously taught at the University of Southern Mississippi, and was Associate Provost and Research Professor of History at Vanderbilt. She was a professor at the University of South Carolina from 2004 to 2017.

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  Yochai Benkler

  Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
  
  From 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and treasurer of the Kibbutz Shizafon. He received his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University in 1991 and J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994. He worked at the law firm Ropes & Gray from 1994–1995. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer from 1995 to 1996. Benkler is the last person to clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court justice without having prior judicial clerkship experience.
  
  He was a professor at New York University School of Law from 1996 to 2003, and vi

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  Katherine Benton-Cohen

  Katherine Benton-Cohen is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. She previously taught at Louisiana State University. She is the author of two books, Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2009), and Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy (Harvard University Press, 2018). She also served as historical advisor to the documentary feature film, Bisbee ’17, directed by Robert Greene. Benton-Cohen has received research fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and elsewhere. She currently serves as an Organization of American Historians Disting

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  Ian Tyrrell

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  Ian Tyrrell retired as Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in July 2012 and is now an Emeritus Professor of History. Born in Brisbane, Queensland, he was educated at the University of Queensland and Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and James B. Duke Fellow. His teaching and research interests include American history, environmental history, and historiography.
  
  He was a pioneer in the approach to transnational history as a research program for reconceptualizing United States history through his essay “American Exceptionalism in an Age of International History” in the American Historical Revi

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