James McPherson

Acclaimed Civil War Historian & Author

Tyler Anbinder

American Historian, Award-Winning Author & Professor of History at George Washington University

Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s

Colin G. Calloway

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

Mark Updegrove

Author; Historian; President & CEO of the LBJ Foundation

Howard Bahr

Novelist Who Served in the Vietnam War and Writes About American Warfare

Steve Coll

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

Sean Wilentz

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

Dan Ariely

Behavioral Economist; Professor at Duke University; Author; Founding Member of The Center for Advanced Hindsight

Roosevelt Montás

Senior Lecturer in the Center for American Studies at Columbia University

Ned Blackhawk

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

Don E. Carleton

Executive Director of the Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin

Melissa L. Cooper

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

Alaina E. Roberts

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

Ilan Wurman

Law Professor & Author of "A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism"

Joanne Freeman

Professor of American History and of American Studies, Yale University

Julian Chambliss

Educator, Writer & Researcher

Gil Troy

American Historian

Paul Ortiz

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

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Associate Professor of History at Smith College, Expert on The History of Race, Citizenship & Slavery

Edward L Ayers

Author of "The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America," Co-host of BackStory Podcast

Heather Cox Richardson

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

John W. Dower

Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-Founder of MIT's "Visualizing Cultures" Project & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Chris Emery

American Author & Former Government Official

Who Killed the President?

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"

Jeffrey C. Stewart

National Book Award Longlisted Author

Victoria Johnson

National Book Award Longlisted Author; Professor at Hunter College

Dr. Brent D. Glass

Director Emeritus, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

John Ferling

Historian and Author; Specialized in the American Revolution