Advisory Council
Dr. Jean H. Baker
Professor of History, Goucher College
Julian Bond
Professor of History, University of Virginia
Chairman, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Dr. Gabor Boritt
Director, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College
Dr. Michael Burlingame
Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies, University of Illinois-Springfield
Dr. Catherine Clinton
Chair in US History, Queens University, Belfast
The Honorable Richard M. Daley
Mayor, City of Chicago
Sam Donaldson
Broadcast Journalist
Sally Field
Actress
Joan L. Flinspach
President & CEO, The Lincoln Museum of Fort Wayne, IN
Dr. Gary W. Gallagher
Professor, University of Virginia
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Dr. Brent Glass
Director, National Museum of American History
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Author and Historian
Dr. Allen C. Guelzo
Director, Civil War Era Studies Program, Gettysburg College
Dr. Harold Holzer
Co-Chair, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Mark Leithauser
Chief of Design, National Gallery of Art
Russell Lewis
Chief Historian, Chicago Historical Museum
Dr. James M. McPherson
Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University
Dr. Edna Greene Medford
Professor of History, Howard University
Pat Mitchell
President & CEO, The Paley Center for Media
Richard Moe
President, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Marc Pachter
Director Emeritus, National Portrait Gallery
Dr. Matthew Pinsker
Professor of History, Dickinson College
Dr. James I. (Bud) Robertson, Jr.
Executive Director, Virginia Center for Civil War Studies
Eugene Robinson
Journalist / Commentary
Bob Schieffer
CBS News
Dr. Thomas F. Schwartz
Acting Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Dr. John Sellers
Historian, Library of Congress
Richard Norton Smith
Scholar in Residence, George Mason University
James Swanson
Senior Legal Scholar, The Heritage Foundation
Author, Manhunt
D. Dodge Thompson
Chief of Exhibitions, National Gallery of Art
Douglas L. Wilson
Co-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College
Dr. Jay Winik
Author and Historian


