
David Blight
Professor of American History at Yale University; Director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance and Abolition

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Professor of American History at Yale University; Director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery Resistance and Abolition

Leading Military Historian and Foreign-Policy Analyst

Author Who Writes Extensively About World War II

Historian, Author & Expert on Economic Inequality, Journalist for the Correspondent

CNN Presidential Historian and Professor at Rice University

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Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Historian and Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
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