Dr. Jean H. Baker
Professor of History, Goucher College

Gigi Bolt
Arts Consultant, Past Director of Theatre, National Endowment for the Arts

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. Richard Carwardine
President, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Author, Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power

Dr. Catherine Clinton
Chair in US History, Queens University, Belfast

The Honorable Richard M. Daley
Former Mayor, City of Chicago

Sam Donaldson
Broadcast Journalist

Sally Field
Actress

Dr. Gary W. Gallagher
Professor, University of Virginia

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Author and Historian

Dr. Allen C. Guelzo
Director, Civil War Era Studies Program, Gettysburg College

Harold Holzer
Co-Chair, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Joseph M. Lawler
National Park Service, Ret.

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

Marc Pachter
Interim Director, National Museum of American History

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
Illinois State Historian

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

Dr. Margaret B. Wilkerson
Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

Douglas L. Wilson
Co-Director of the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College

Dr. Jay Winik
Author and Historian