Paul Ortiz

Historian, Professor, Author of "An African American History of the United States"

Judge Victoria Pratt

Former Chief Judge, Newark, NJ Criminal Justice Reform Activist; Executive Director of Odyssey Impact & Author of "The Power of Dignity"

Meet the judge who assigns essays in court

Susan Burton

Prison Reform Activist, Executive Director of A New Way of Life & Author of "Becoming Ms. Burton"

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

Heather Cox Richardson

Author of "To Make Men Free," American History Professor at Boston College

Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Director of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at University of California Irvine; Founder of the Institute for Global Child Advocacy

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Professor of Geography at City University of New York & Associate Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics

Desmond Meade

President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition & Chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.

Author & Historian

Lillian Faderman

Renowned LGBT Historian & Author

Malinda Maynor Lowery

Historian, Documentary Film Producer & Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University; Author of "Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South" & "The Lumbee Indians"; Member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina

Jane Sherron De Hart

Political Historian & Author of "Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life"

John Rapley

Journalist, Political Economist at the University of Cambridge & Founder of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute

Victoria Johnson

National Book Award Longlisted Author; Professor at Hunter College

Colin G. Calloway

Historian & Author; Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College

John Ferling

Historian and Author; Specialized in the American Revolution

Mary Stockwell

Author and Historian

Derek Peterson

Professor & Historian at the University of Michigan

Virginia Berridge

Academic Historian; Professor of History & Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Valeria Luiselli

Award-Winning Mexican Author Known for "Faces in the Crowd"

Timothy Snyder

Author, American Historian & Professor of History at Yale University

Edmond Davis

Speaker, Historian, Author, Contributor, College Instructor, Expert on 21st Century Law Enforcement and Communities of Color

Laura Nirider

Co-Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions & Post-Conviction Lawyer featured on Netflix's "Making a Murderer"

Emma Dench

Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian

Sven Beckert

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

Kathryn S. Olmsted

Professor and Department Chair of the History Department at UC Davis, Author of "Right out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism"

John Demos

American Author and Historian, Best Known for Knowledge on Witch-Hunting; Professor Emeritus at Yale

David Armitage

Author, Historian & Chair of Harvard's History Department

David Hackett Fischer

University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History

Jeffrey Rosen

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

James McPherson

Acclaimed Civil War Historian & Author