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