Colin Grant

Author & Historian; Known for his TED Talk "How Our Stories Cross Over"

Jacqueline Winspear

Award-Winning Mystery Writer Known for the "Maisie Dobbs" Series

Alexa Clay

Writer, Culture Hacker, Innovation Strategist & Co-Author of "The Misfit Economy"

David Blight

Professor of History; Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University

Live Lecture: Yale Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Blight

Gerald Vizenor

Writer, Scholar & Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Tukufu Zuberi

Expert on Race Relations; Host, "PBS History Detectives"; Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania,

Aaron David Miller

Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Daniel Pipes

Foreign Policy Expert & President of The Middle East Forum

Sonia Nazario

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Journalist; Author of "Enrique’s Journey"

David M. Kennedy

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian & Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University

Dr. Hendrik Poinar

Evolutionary Biologist Specializing in Ancient DNA

Jeffrey Rosen

President & CEO of the National Constitution Center & Contributing Editor of The Atlantic

Charles Moore

Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, Dedicated to Combat Plastic Pollution

Charles Moore - TED Talk - Seas of Plastic

George Smart

Podcaster, Founder & CEO of USModernist®, the World's Largest Nonprofit Educational Archive of Modernist Residential Design

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David Fiske

Expert on life of Solomon Northup

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Satoshi Kanazawa

Evolutionary Psychologist and Intelligence Researcher, London School of Economics and Political Science

Dov Zakheim

Fmr. Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)

Arthur Mutambara

Pres., Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe)

Jacob Soll

Historian of Early Modern Europe Who is Researching the Origins of the Modern State; Author of "The Reckoning"