All Authors

Marc Lallanilla is a writer and editor specializing in history, science and health. His work has been published by the Los Angeles Times, ABCNews.com, TheWeek.com, the New York Post, LiveScience and other platforms. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in the New York City area.

David Lauterborn is the former editor of the award-winning magazines Wild West and Military History. He and wife Jill hail from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the original “gateway to the West” for Corps of Discovery co-captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who mapped much of our nascent nation for the Army.

Cristiana Lombardo is an editor at HISTORY.com and documentary producer. Before joining HISTORY, she was a multimedia producer for American Masters, PBS' long-running biography series.

Kristen Lopez is an entertainment journalist published in Variety, IndieWire and The Hollywood Reporter. She is an author whose first book, But Have You Read the Book, dropped via Running Press and TCM in 2023.

Chuck Lyons is a retired newspaper editor and a freelance writer whose articles, memoirs, stories and haiku have appeared in a number of national and international periodicals. He resides in Brighton, near Rochester, New York, with his wife Brenda and a golden retriever named 'Jack.'

Alexa McCall is a historian and freelance writer, fact-checker and educator based in New York City. She specializes in the history of religion, politics and economics in the Atlantic World.

Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist based in London who writes mainly about science, archaeology, history, the earth, the oceans and space.

Kallie Moore manages the University of Montana paleontology collection and is a host and content consultant for the YouTube channel PBS Eons. Her debut children's book, "Tales of the Prehistoric World" was released by Neon Squid in 2002 and she is an Executive Producer of the film "Why Dinosaurs?" (2024).

John Murph is an award-winning journalist and DJ. His work has been published in The Washington Post, DownBeat, NPR Music, TIDAL Music, AARP The Magazine and Washington Lawyer.

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

Mark Piesing, a freelance journalist based in Oxford, UK, was a finalist for Media Aviation Awards in both 2024 and 2025. He is author of N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia. Learn more at markpiesing.com or follow him @MarkPiesing.

Dan Roe is a freelance writer with a decade of experience covering a variety of topics including the outdoors, running, cycling, health, fitness and more. He has written for titles including Runner’s World, Bicycling, Popular Mechanics, Outside, SELF, VICE and more.

John Russell is a journalist and critic whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Slate, People, Billboard, and Out. In addition to his work for History.com, he covers politics and entertainment for LGBTQ Nation and writes about film, TV, and pop culture in his free newsletter Johnny Writes...

Ale Russian is a writer, reporter and communications professional with work published in multiple nationally recognized titles.

Katie Gee Salisbury is the author of Not Your China Doll, a new biography of Anna May Wong, Hollywood's first Asian American movie star. She also writes the Substack Half-Caste Woman.

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.

M.G. Sheftall, author of Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (2025) and Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses (2024), is a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication at Shizuoka University, where his research specializes in the war experiences of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers and civilians. He has lived in Japan since 1987.

Ellen Sheng is a New Jersey-based writer and editor. Her work has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes, Fast Company, Real Simple and Marie Claire.