Nicholas Boston is an associate professor of media sociology​ at Lehman College, the City University of New York​.

H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class.

Rodney A. Brooks is a contributing writer at National Geographic and U.S. News & World Report, and he has written for The Washington Post and USA TODAY.

Ashley Brown is Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of [Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson](http://Ashley Brown is Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson, published by Oxford University Press.), published by Oxford University Press.

Olivia Campbell is a journalist and best-selling author. Learn more about her work here.

Karen Juanita Carrillo is a Brooklyn, New York-based writer and photographer. She specializes in covering African American and Afro-Latino history, literature and politics. Visit her author website at amazon.com/author/karenjuanitacarrillo.

Rachel Chang is a freelance contributor who writes for Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, AFAR, Lonely Planet and the Washington Post.

Alexis Clark writes about race, culture and politics during major events and eras in American history. She has written for The New York Times, Smithsonian, Preservation and other publications. She is the author of Enemies in Love: A German POW, A Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance, and an assistant professor at Columbia Journalism School.

Zachary Clary is a historian and PhD candidate specializing in 20th-century politics and African American history at Vanderbilt University. He has written for numerous publications, including The Chicago Tribune, Smithsonian Magazine and The Washington Post-Made by History.

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin are the New York Times-bestselling authors of several history books, including The Heart of Everything That Is and, more recently, Valley Forge.