All Authors

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.

Nate Barksdale is a historian and science journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is a frequent writer and fact-checker for History.com and a regular contributor to Templeton Ideas. Learn more at natebarksdale.xyz.

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.

Ken Bensinger is an award-winning reporter at The New York Times and previously, BuzzFeed News. He is the author of Red Card, the definitive chronicle of the global FIFA corruption scandal.

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.

Clifton E. Sorrell is a doctoral student in History at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in slavery in the Atlantic world. Daina Ramey Berry is the Radkey Regents Professor and Chair of History Department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Erin Blakemore is an award-winning journalist who lives and works in Boulder, Colorado. Learn more at erinblakemore.com

David Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. A professor of American history at Yale University and director of the school's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, he is an award-winning author of many books including American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography _Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

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 veteran journalist who has written for National Geographic, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report and USA TODAY. He is the author of the book, The Rise and Fall of the Freedman’s Savings Bank and Its Lasting Socio-Economic Impact on Black America, which received an Outstanding Book Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.