Stephanie Forshee is a Brooklyn-based writer and author of Hidden Gems: Margaret Getchell LaForge. She has published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and more.

Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist who has covered science for Smithsonian, Scientific American, Live Science and more.

Zach Schonfeld is a freelance journalist and critic based in New York. He was formerly a senior writer at Newsweek. His most recent book, "How Coppola Became Cage," a biography of Nicolas Cage, was published in 2023.

Adam M. Sowards is a historian and writer specializing in public lands and conservation in the US West, especially the Pacific Northwest.

John Stapleton IV is an award-winning journalist and wildlife enthusiast. He is the author of Hidden Gems: Business Basics for Kids.

John J. Edwards III is a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a longtime senior editor at Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal. You can follow him at @johnjedwards3.

Becky Little is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. Follow her on Bluesky.

Ana Lucia Araujo, is a historian of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Dr. Araujo is currently Professor of History at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Projects. Her three more recent books are Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism, and Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery.

Kirby Pábalan-Táyag Aráullo is a Filipino American historian and content creator. He is currently the National Coordinator for Culture and Heritage for the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON).

Raymond Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, is the author of Arthur Ashe: A Life.

John Avlon is senior political analyst at CNN. Previously, he was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast. He is the author of such books as Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics, Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, and Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations. Follow him on Twitter at @JohnAvlon.

A longtime journalist, Banks was a senior editor for ESPN.com and The Dallas Morning News. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, Civil War News, America's Civil War and Military Images, among other publications.

Craig P. Bauer, a professor of mathematics at York College of Pennsylvania, is editor in chief of the journal Cryptologia. He has served as a scholar in residence at the NSA’s Center for Cryptologic History and is the author of Unsolved!: The History and Mystery of the World’s Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret Societies.