Ned Blackhawk

Professor of History & American Studies at Yale; Author of "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History"

Paul D. Miller

Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

Carolyn Roberts

Assistant Professor in History of Science & History of Medicine; African American Studies Professor at Yale University

Joanne Freeman

Professor of American History and of American Studies, Yale University

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson

Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize Winning Author of "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy," Historian at the University of Michigan

Kate Bowler

Author of "Everything Happens for a Reason"; Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at Duke University Divinity School; Expert on "Prosperity Gospel"

Kate Bowler - Introduction

Mark Updegrove

Author; Historian; President & CEO of the LBJ Foundation

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

Michael Twitty Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Timothy Snyder

Author, American Historian & Professor of History at Yale University

Timothy Tyson

Author & Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Historian, Writer, Feminist, Human Rights Activist

Rosie Rios

Former Treasurer of the United States; CEO of Red River Associates

Arthur Herman

Renowned Historian, NY Times Bestselling Author & Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Mark Pryor

U.S. Senator (2003-2015) and Arkansas State Attorney General (1999-2002)

Henry Petroski

Engineer & Prolific Author

Sven Beckert

Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University; Author of "Empire of Cotton"

Hank Willis Thomas

Conceptual Artist

Kim Stanley Robinson

Bestselling & Award-Winning Science Fiction Writer

S.C. Gwynne

Best-Selling Author, Award-Winning Journalist & Historian

Julian E. Zelizer

CNN Political Analyst, Professor of History & Public Affairs at Princeton University