Jim Downs (Author, Editor) JIM DOWNS is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of History at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine , Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the coeditor of Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America . Stephanie McCurry (Author) STEPHANIE MCCURRY is professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of three prize winning books, including Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War and Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South . Joanne B. Freeman (Author) JOANNE B. FREEMAN is professor of history at Yale University. She is the author of Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and the editor of Alexander Hamilton: Writings.

Elizabeth Hinton (Author) ELIZABETH HINTON is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University. She is the author of America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s and From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Jill Lepore (Author) JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker . Her many books include These Truths: A History of the United States , The Secret History of Wonder Woman , and Book of Ages . William Sturkey (Author) WILLIAM STURKEY is an associate professor of history at the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White and To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools. Julian E. Zelizer (Author) JULIAN ZELIZER is professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.

He is the award-winning author and editor of many books, including Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party and The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society .