Jack Tamisiea is a freelance journalist and science writer based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic and several other popular publications. You can read more of his work at jacktamisiea.com

Vietnam veteran David T. Zabecki retired from the U.S. Army in 2007 as a Major General. He holds a PhD in military history from Britain’s Royal Military College of Science. In 2012 he was a visiting professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.

Annie Zaleski is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist who's written books about Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Duran Duran and Christmas songs.

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.

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.

Laura Barcella is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, PEOPLE and more.

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.

Joey is a Hawaii-based journalist who has written more than 900 articles for the general public on a wide range topics, including history, health, astronomy, archaeology, artificial intelligence, and more.

Daina Ramey Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a scholar of the enslaved and the award-winning author/editor of books on slavery including The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, the Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Follow her on twitter @DainaRameyBerry.