BTW please let me know if others find this list of historians 'unimpressive'.
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/07-290_amicus_historians.pdf
Jack Rakove, Professor of History, American Studies, Law @ Stanford; past president of Society for the History of the Early American Republic
Saul Cornell, Professor of History of The Ohio State University, where he directs the 2nd Amendment Research Center, winner of Langrum Prize of Historical Literature
David Konig, Professor of History and Law at Washington U in St Louis
William Novak, Assoc Professor of History at U of Chicago, winner of Littleton Griswold Prize for best book of American legal history
Lois Schwoerer, Professor of History Emerita at George Washington, past president of North American Conference for British Studies.
Fred Anderson (I own his wonderful book on 7 years war), Professor of History at U of Colorado, aforementioned book won Francis Parkman Prize, another one of his books won the Jamestown Prize
Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of Baruch College, Prof of History at CUNY and Baruch College.
Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law
R Don Higginbotham, Dowd Professor of History at Chapel Hill, past president of southern historical association and society for the history of the early american republic
Stanley N Katz, bicentential professor of history of american law at Princeton, past president of American Council of Learned Societies, formerly Professor of Law at Univ of Chicago.
Pauline Maier, William Rand Kenan Professor of American History at MIT
Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor at University of Virginia
also past president of society for history of early american republic.
Also included: Robert E Shalope, Oklahoma
Alan Taylor, California
John Shy, Michigan
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