Advisory Board

Sources in U.S. History Online: Slavery in America

Documents selected by Professor Vernon Burton of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Burton was selected in the past as U.S. Research and Doctoral University Professor of the Year and has received the American Historical Association's Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Prize. He is the author of more than a hundred articles and the author or editor of fourteen books, including In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina and The Age of Lincoln (winner of the 2007 Chicago Tribune Heartland Price for non-fiction).

Sources in U.S. History Online: Civil War

Edited by historian Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley-Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School in Albany, NY. Finkelman has published more than 20 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. He has given over one hundred and fifty papers and lectures in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Colombia.

Sources in U.S. History Online: The American Revolution

Selected by Katherine A. Hermés, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. She is the author of multiple articles and has presented papers by invitation at the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World in 1997, 2000, and 2005.