The following scholars and librarians have helped select the texts to be included in American Journeys:

James Axtell
Professor of History
College of William and Mary

John L. Allen
Professor of Geography
University of Wyoming

Juliana Barr
Assistant Professor of History
Rutgers University

Ann Billesbach
Head of Reference Services
Nebraska State Historical Society

Sarah Fatherly
Assistant Professor of History
Otterbein College

Emily Troxell Jaycox
Librarian
Missouri Historical Society

Linda Morton-Keithley
Administrator, Historical Library and Archives
Idaho State Historical Society

Louise Pubols
Historian
Autry Museum of Western Heritage

Susan Rippley,
James Ford Bell Library
University of Minnesota

James Ronda
Prof. of History
Univiversity of Oklahoma

Edward Connie Shoemaker
Library Director
Oklahoma Historical Society

David Weber
Director, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University

Marsha Weisiger
Asst. Professor of History
New Mexico State University