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Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. He received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. He is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.

Eugene Dominic Genovese (born May 19, 1930) is a noted historian of the American South and American slavery.was born in Brooklyn and was awarded a BA from the Brooklyn College in 1953, a MA from Columbia University in 1955, and a PhD in 1959. Genovese taught at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn from 1958 to 1963. He was a highly controversial history professor at Rutgers University (1963-1967), and at the University of Rochester (1969-1986). From 1986 onwards, Genovese taught part-time at the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Emory University and Georgia State University. In 1969, he married the historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

Much of Vincent Harding's early career consisted of his collaboration with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which made him known to the public. He was involved in the civil rights movement, assisting the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality. Supported by the Service Committee of the Mennonite Church, he headed an interracial work project, The Mennonite House in Atlanta, Georgia.

William Loren Katz is an American educator, historian, and author of many books on African-American history, including a number of titles for young adult readers. He is particularly noted for his extensive writings on the 500-year history of relations between African-Americans and Native Americans in the New World.

David Levering Lewis is an American historian and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W.E.B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes.

The author of seven books and editor of two more, Lewis's field is comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history. His interests include nineteenth-century Africa and twentieth-century France.

Leon F. Litwack is an American historian and professor of history at the University of California Berkeley. He is the 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He retired to emeritus status at the end of the Spring 2007 semester.

Rayford Wittingham Logan (January 7, 1897 - November 4, 1982) was an African American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations". In the late 1940s he was the chief advisor to the NAACP on international affairs.

Peniel E. Joseph is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the leading young scholars of African American history. Although JosephÂ’s formal expertise includes the Black Radial Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Black Social Movements, and African American feminism, he is currently embarking on a re-evaluation of the Black Power Movement. Professor Joseph teaches in the Dept. of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University.

Manning Marable is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes. His current project is a biography of the black rights activist Malcolm X., entitled 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'. He was recently elected Chair of Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS), the incorporated non-profit arm of Students for a Democratic Society. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), a non-profit coalition of prominent public figures dedicated to utilizing hip hop as an agent for social change.

P. Sterling Stuckey completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, then taught elementary and high school in Chicago for a period of six years. He later earned a doctorate degree in History from Northwestern where he was appointed Associate Professor in 1971 and Full Professor in 1977. Stuckey was Hill Foundation Visiting Research Professor at the University of Minnesota in 1970-71, a Visiting Research Fellow at UCLA in 1975-76, an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1980-81, a Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in 1987-88; and a Fellow at the Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine in 1991-92. Stuckey's Slave Culture was published by Oxford University Press in 1987. His Going Through the Storm: The Influence of African American Art in History was published by Oxford in 1994. Current projects include, for Oxford, an extended study of slave dance tentatively entitled The Ring Shout: The Role of Dance in the Formation of Culture, an d an extended study, for the Cambridge University Press Literary Series, of Herman Melville's Benito Cereno. Stuckey is especially interested in the relationship of art to history, and has an interest in labor as well as intellectual and cultural history.

Mark S. Weiner is a professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law - Newark. He teaches constitutional law, professional responsibility and legal history.Weiner also received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Black Trials. His book Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (New York University Press, 2006) was awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association (see juridical racialism). Other publications include New Biographical Evidence on Somerset's Case, in Slavery & Abolition (2002).

Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. From 2003-2006, he was the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia University. From 1994-2003, he was a professor of history and Africana Studies at New York University as well the chairman of NYU's history department from 2002-2003. Robin Kelley has also served as a Hess Scholar-in-Residence at Brooklyn College.

Lerone Bennett, Jr., prolific writer and social historian, has served on the editorial staff of Ebony for over 50 years. He has authored articles, poems, short stories, and over nine books on African American history and current political challenges facing blacks. Bennett skillfully explores United States racial history its struggle for equality.

Sylviane Anna Diouf is a historian and writer of Franco-Senegalese origin.