Heather Ann Thompson

Heather Ann Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a renowned storyteller and expert on the history, politics, and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. She earned her PhD from Princeton University, and has consulted on numerous documentaries, motion pictures, and tv series. Her writing can be found in the New York Times, Newsweek,…

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Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Armstrong Dunbar is a National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction and an expert in African American history and culture from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Dunbar received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University.…

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Becky Nicolaides

Becky Nicolaides is an expert on the history of the 20th century, and author of several award-winning studies of suburban life in America.  After receiving her Ph.D. from Columbia University, she became a tenured faculty member at UCSD, then moved into full-time consulting for film, television, documentaries, podcasts, cultural resources, and public history projects. She…

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Jim Downs

Jim Downs is the author of Sick From Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction; Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation and Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery and War Transformed Medicine. He served as the consulting editor for the New York Times Bestseller The Intellectual Devotional…

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Eric Avila

Eric Avila is a professor affiliated with three departments at UCLA: History, Chicana/o Studies, and Urban Planning. His research and teaching focus on the history of Los Angeles and its rise as a global city over the span of two centuries. He also studies the history of American culture and the history of Hollywood in…

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Tiffany M. Gill

Dr. Tiffany M. Gill is the inaugural John and Patricia Cochran Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry, which received the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize by the Association of Black Women…

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Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s…

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Jung H. Pak

Jung H. Pak is a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at the Brookings Institution and the author of Becoming Kim Jong Un: A CIA Analyst’s Insights into North Korea’s Enigmatic Young Dictator (Ballantine, forthcoming April 2020). She focuses on the national security challenges facing the United States and East Asia,…

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Caitlin Parker

Caitlin Parker is a historian of the 20th century US, with a focus on politics and urban development. She earned her BA from Amherst College and her MA and CPhil at UCLA. Her research focuses on the administration of Tom Bradley, the first African-African mayor of Los Angeles, and she has conducted a series of…

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Annie Powers

Annie Powers is a twice Primetime Emmy-nominated historical researcher, writer, and producer of documentary and scripted TV and film. After receiving her MA in history, she began her career on history programs like Drunk History and the genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?  Since then, she has specialized in producing stories at the…

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