Annette Gordon-Reed

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

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Dan Fagin

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Known for "Toms River"

Peter Thiel

Former CEO and Co-founder of PayPal; Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist

Graham Hill

Founder of Life Edited & TreeHugger.com

Parag Khanna

Managing Partner at FutureMap; Strategic Advisor to Governments & Global Companies; Bestselling Author; TED Speaker

Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

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

Gilbert King

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Known for "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America"

Linda Gordon

Award Winning Author, Historian & Feminist

Ron Powers

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author

Dan Flores

Historian Specializing in Cultural & Environmental Studies of the American West; Author of Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dean King

Award-Winning Best-Selling Author; Motivational & Inspirational Speaker; Cancer Survivor

Rinker Buck

Award-Winning Author; Known for "Flight of Passage"

Sven Beckert

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

Thomas Woods

Leading Libertarian Thought Leader, American Historian, Political Analyst & New York Times Bestselling Author

Jay Winik

Bestselling Author and American Historian; Known for "April 1865: The Month That Saved America"

Shashi Tharoor

Diplomat & Author; Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General

Alison Gopnik

Professor & World Leader in Children's Learning and Development

Rebecca MacKinnon

Founding Director of Ranking Digital Rights

Bill O'Reilly

Host of "The O'Reilly Factor," Best-Selling Author & Syndicated News Columnist

Michael Lewis

Best-Selling Author of "The Fifth Risk", "Moneyball", and "The Big Short"

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Peter Diamandis

Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation; Author; Named One of The World's 50 Greatest Leaders

Dan Hauser

Author, Historian & Entertaining Commentator

Herbert P. Bix

Historian, Teacher & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Rutger Bregman

Historian, Author & Expert on Economic Inequality; Journalist for the Correspondent

Dr. Brent D. Glass

Director Emeritus, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

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