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