PSAR has an advisory board of nationally known scholars, preservationists and elected leaders who are willing to lend their names to our cause:

Lawrence Babits Is George Washington Distinguished Professor and the Director and Professor of the Program in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University.  He specializes in Maritime Archaeology, Military History and Battlefield Archaeology.  He earned a Ph.D. from Brown University has produced numerous field reports, journal  articles and book chapters as well as five books with several more in the works.  His books include A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, which has earned the 1998 Distinguished Book Award from the Army Historical Foundation.  Dr. Babits has conducted excavations on Revolutionary War sites in Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, and underwater sites in Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.  He also has extensive experience as a reenactor, especially during the Revolutionary War period.

Thomas Fleming is the author of over forty books, including over a dozen on the Revolutionary War.    Mr. Fleming is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and has served as SAH president in 2007-2008.  He contributes regularly to the Quarterly Journal of Military History, American Heritage, and many other magazines.  He has served as chairman of the American Revolution Roundtable and as president of the American Center of P. E. N.  He is also a novelist of note: Liberty Tavern sold over two million copies in various editions. Perhaps his best known nonfiction book on the American Revolution is his revisionist 1776: Year of Illusions.  His most recent work is The Perils of Peace: Americas Struggle for Survival after Yorktown, which was a main selection of the History Book Club.

Joe E. Harris, Jr. is the Executive Director of The National Society, Sons of the American Revolution.  He retired from the U. S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1998 after receiving several awards, including the Legion of Merit.  Joe has a Master of Public Administration from Golden Gate University in California.  He received a BS in Education from North Carolina State University.  He has served as an Assistant Professor of Military Science at Old Dominion University.  Joe has had leadership positions in a number of philanthropic societies and is active in historic preservation projects, including the Over Mountain Victory Trail Association.

Paul Hawke is the Chief of the American Battlefield Protection Program.  He holds a BA from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and an MA from Georgia State University in Historic Preservation.  He has worked in the National Park Service since 1979 and has served as an Interpretive Park Ranger and Historian at Petersburg National Battlefield, Pea Ridge and Fredericksburg National Military Parks and Independence National Historical Park.  He was the southeast coordinator of the National Historic Landmark Program, the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, and the American Battlefield program while serving as a historian at the Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta, Georgia.  Prior to his current position he was the Chief Ranger at Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee.  Paul is the Chair for the special committee on Fortification and Military Heritage for US ICOMOS. Paul is a founder and secretary of the Civil War Fortification Study Group and holds membership in many academic and historical organizations.

Donald R. Hickey, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1972 has taught at the University of Illinois, University of Colorado, University of California at Santa Barbara, and Texas Tech University.  In addition, he has served as the John F. Morrison Professor of Military History, U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and as Visiting Professor of Strategy, U. S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.  Currently, he is a Professor of History at Wayne State College in Nebraska.  Hickey is an award-winning author who has written five books and more than fifty articles. He is best known for The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict and Don’t Give up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 (2006).

Honorable Rush Holt is the U. S. Representative from the 12th District in New Jersey.   Mr. Holt received his BA in physics from Carleton College in Minnesota and completed his Master’s and PhD from NYU.  He has held positions as a teacher, Congressional Science Fellow and Arms Control Expert.  Prior to his election to the U. S. Congress in 1998 he was the Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Laboratory.  Mr. Holt has provided leadership in Congress in many areas, including conservation and historic Preservation.  Congressman Holt is the author of two bills which, if passed, will assist in the permanent preservation of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battlefields.  He has also cosponsored numerous bills for preservation of historic sites.

Glenn F. Williams is currently the Historian, National Museum of the U.S. Army.  Prior to his current position Glenn was the operations officer of the Army Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration, the senior historian for the U.S. Army Commemoration office, historian for the National Park Service American Battlefield Preservation Program, and Historian and Curator of Exhibits at the USS Constellation Museum.  Glenn retired his commission as a Major in the U. S. Army in 1996.  He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Maryland, College Park.  He holds an M.A., History, at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a M.A., Human Resources Development, Webster University, St. Louis, MO and a B.A. History, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD.  Glenn has written two books and numerous papers relating to American Military history.  His book, Year of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign against the Iroquois has earned the Thomas J. Fleming Award for the outstanding Revolutionary War book in 2005.