* Stephen Ambrose: Popular historian and author of books such as *Band of Brothers* and *Citizen Soldiers*.
* Doris Kearns Goodwin: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of books such as *The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys* and * Team of Rivals*.
* Jon Meacham: Presidential historian and author of books such as *Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power* and *Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush*.
* Robert Caro: Celebrated biographer and author of *The Power Broker*, a biography of New York City power broker Robert Moses.