America First: The past and future of an idea

Jefferson Cowie is the James G. Stahlman Chair in the department of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics.

Darren Dochuk is an associate professor of history at Notre Dame. He has written widely on religion, politics, economics, and culture in American life. He is the co-editor of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism.

David Farber, the Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, studies political culture, social change movements, and counterculture in 20th-century US history. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism.

Michael Froman is a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center. He served as the US trade representative from June 2013 to January 2017. 

Beverly Gage is a professor of history and American studies at Yale University, as well as a Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror.

Maria Cristina Garcia, a 2016 Andrew Carnegie fellow, is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the department of history at Cornell University. She specializes in US immigration history and policy. She is the author of The Refugee Challenge in Post–Cold War America.

Nicole Hemmer is an associate professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center. She is an expert on the history of American politics, conservatism, and the media. She is the author of Messangers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.

William Hitchcock is the Randolph P. Compton Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he focuses on the international, diplomatic, and military history of the 20th century. He is the author of The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.

Geoffrey Kabaservice is the author of the National Book Award–nominated The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. He has written for numerous national publications and has been an assistant professor of history at Yale University. He is currently the director of political studies at the Niskanen Center.

Robert Kagan is a senior fellow of foreign policy, project on international order and strategy, at the Brookings Institution. He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the policy planning staff, as principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and as deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs.

Mel Leffler is the Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Professor of History at the University of Virginia, with an expertise in the Cold War, arms control, Communism, and national security. His most recent book is Safeguarding Democratic Captialism.

David Milne is a senior lecturer in history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of America’s Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War and Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy.

Christopher Nichols is the director of the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities and a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He specializes in the history of the United States and its relationship to the rest of the world. He is the author of Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age.

Andrew Preston is a professor of American history at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses the intersections of the national and the international, the foreign and the domestic, including the influence that domestic politics and religious culture have on the conduct of US foreign policy.