Steve Coll

Former President & CEO of New America Foundation; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Ghost Wars"

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Tukufu Zuberi

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

Larry Schweikart

Former Rock Drummer, Historian, Film Producer & Co-Author of "A Patriot's History of the United States"

Vali Nasr

Professor of International Affairs & Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)

Julian E. Zelizer

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

Sean Wilentz

Professor of History at Princeton University With An Expertise In Contemporary Political History and 1960s Music Historian

James McBride

New York Times Best-Selling Author & Musician

Catherine Clinton

Pioneering Historian of the American South; Author, Editor & Denman Professor at University of Texas

Ilan Pappé

Professor of History at the University of Exeter; Author of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"

Professor Ilan Pappé-Crisis in Zionism, Opportunity for Palestine?

Caleb Gayle

Award-Winning Journalist, Writer, & Author of "We Refuse To Forget"; Professor at Northeastern University

What Was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?

Dr. Vicki Crawford

Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection at Morehouse College

60 years after March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Jasmine L. Harris

Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio & Author of “Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education”

Beau Breslin

Law Professor and Author of "A Constitution for the Living: Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation's Fundamental Law"

From Words to Worlds

Matt Bennett

Assembly Speaker Empowering the Youth & Underserved Communities

Philip Deloria

Historian, Award-Winning Author, and Professor

Royel M. Johnson

Associate Professor of Education & Social Work and Co-Chair of the Rossier School of Education PhD Program at the University of Southern California

Audra Simpson

Scholar & Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University; Citizen of the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Nation.

Nancy Baker Jones

President of the Ruthe Winegarten Foundation for Texas Women's History

Emilio Zamora

Professor in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin; Former President of the Texas State Historical Association

Fred L. McGhee

Archaeologist; Urban & Environmental Anthropologist

Makeda N. Jones

CEO of Empowerment Changes Everything LLC, Professor, Prison Reform Activist, Forensic Psychiatrist & Author

Melissa L. Cooper

Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark; Author of "Making Gullah" & African American History Expert

Margot Canaday

Professor, Author & Historian; Expert on Gender & Sexuality in Modern America

Rachel Harding

Associate Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Denver

P. Gabrielle Foreman

Award-Winning Professor, MacArthur "Genius Grant" Award Winner, Leader in the field of Black Digital & Public History

Dayna Bowen Matthew

Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School

Riana Elyse Anderson

Licensed Clinical Psychologist & Assistant Professor in the Health Behavior and Health Education Department in the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health

Alaina E. Roberts

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

Andres Resendez

Historian at UC Davis