We received nearly 100 responses. Some respondents completed all 13 lists, some fewer. We made the lists in these pages by simply tallying up the votes. In some instances, we felt logic dictated that we group them thematically—for example, putting the Reconstruction Amendments together, rather than counting them individually. The final lists here are admittedly somewhat subjective, in that in each category we decided on a number that constituted a critical mass of votes; that number was different for each category, since the n of each category was different based on the number of responses (for example, many more participants made best/worst presidents lists than court cases lists). For each category, we chose a cutoff point that seemed to us to represent substantial sentiment favoring inclusion of that person or event.Jonathan Alter, author and columnistEric Alterman, Brooklyn CollegeWilliam J. Antholis, University of Virginia’s Miller CenterCristina Beltrán, New York UniversityDavid Harry Bennett, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (emeritus)Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law SchoolDavid Blight, Yale UniversityHeather Boushey, University of Pennsylvania Kleinman Center for Energy PolicyNadia Brown, Georgetown UniversityAndrew Burstein, Louisiana State UniversityBrandon R. Byrd, Vanderbilt UniversityDavid Canton, University of FloridaLizabeth Cohen, Harvard UniversityJohn Milton Cooper Jr., University of Wisconsin-Madison (emeritus)Robert Dallek, historianMatt Dallek, George Washington UniversityWilliam A. Darity Jr., Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy (emeritus)Matthew Dickinson, Middlebury CollegeRobert E. DiClerico, West Virginia University (emeritus)E.J. Dionne, Brookings InstitutionDaniel Drezner, The Fletcher School at Tufts UniversityKristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin UniversityJames Fallows, writerJohn A. Farrell, writer and historianDrew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University (president emerita)Amy Fried, University of Maine (emerita)Beverly Gage, Yale UniversityDavid Garrow, writer and historianHenry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University Hutchins Center for African and African American ResearchRoxane Gay, writer and cultural criticDavid Greenberg, Rutgers UniversityDarrick Hamilton, The New School for Social ResearchMichael Harriot, journalistNicole Hemmer, Vanderbilt UniversityElizabeth Hinton, Yale UniversityDavid Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley (emeritus)Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State UniversityMichael Kazin, Georgetown UniversityDavid Kennedy, Stanford University (emeritus)Randall L. Kennedy, Harvard Law SchoolAmna Khalid, Carleton CollegeLarry Kramer, London School of Economics and Political ScienceKevin M. Kruse, Princeton UniversityJennifer L. Lawless, University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public PolicyNicholas Lemann, Columbia University Journalism SchoolMargaret Levi, Stanford University (emerita)Sanford V. Levinson, University of Texas at Austin School of LawDavid Levering Lewis, New York University (emeritus)Jen Manion, Amherst CollegeJane Mayer, The New YorkerLiza Mundy, journalist and authorMelissa Murray, New York University School of LawGeorge Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyAryeh Neier, Open Society Foundations (president emeritus)Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University (emerita)Richard Parker, Harvard University Kennedy School of GovernmentClaire Potter, The New School for Social Research (emerita)Andrew Preston, University of VirginiaLara Putnam, University of PittsburghEric Rauchway, University of California, DavisSam Rosenfeld, Colgate UniversityMiguel Schor, Drake University Law SchoolKate Shaw, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolJohn Sides, Vanderbilt UniversityTheda Skocpol, Harvard UniversityCandis Watts Smith, Duke UniversityPaul Starr, Princeton UniversityThomas J. Sugrue, New York UniversityJulie Suk, Fordham University School of LawJeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public AffairsJames Tejani, California Polytechnic State UniversityMichael Tomasky, The New RepublicRobert L. Tsai, Boston University School of LawSiva Vaidhyanathan, University of VirginiaLynn Vavreck, University of California, Los AngelesMichael Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice at NYUSean Wilentz, Princeton UniversityMaya Wiley, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RightsIsabel Wilkerson, journalist and authorBrenda Wineapple, Columbia UniversityJohn Fabian Witt, Yale Law SchoolJulian E. Zelizer, Princeton University