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Heather Cox Richardson
Professor of History at Boston College
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Stanley Nelson
Documentary Filmmaker
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Elizabeth Cobbs
Professor of American History at Texas A&M University
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Wolf Blitzer
CNN News Anchor
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Jake Tapper
CNN Chief Washington Correspondent
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Martin Sheen
Golden Globe Award-Winning Actor
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Douglas Brinkley
Professor of History at Rice University
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Jonathan Capehart
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
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Imani Perry
Professor of Women’s Studies and African American Studies at Harvard University
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer Prize-winning Presidential Historian
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Judy Woodruff
PBS NewsHour Senior Correspondent
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