Karen Juanita Carrillo is a Brooklyn, New York-based writer and photographer. She specializes in covering African American and Afro-Latino history, literature and politics. Visit her author website at amazon.com/author/karenjuanitacarrillo.

Rachel Chang is a freelance contributor who writes for Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, AFAR, Lonely Planet and the Washington Post.

Alexis Clark writes about race, culture and politics during major events and eras in American history. She has written for The New York Times, Smithsonian, Preservation and other publications. She is the author of Enemies in Love: A German POW, A Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance, and an assistant professor at Columbia Journalism School.

Zachary Clary is a historian and PhD candidate specializing in 20th-century politics and African American history at Vanderbilt University. He has written for numerous publications, including The Chicago Tribune, Smithsonian Magazine and The Washington Post-Made by History.

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin are the New York Times-bestselling authors of several history books, including The Heart of Everything That Is and, more recently, Valley Forge.

Colette Coleman is an independent journalist focused on topics in race and equity, past and present. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek and The Chicago Tribune. Follow Colette @ColetteXColeman.

Jon T. Coleman is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and author of Vicious: Wolves and Men in America and co-author of The American West: A New Interpretive History (Yale University Press).

Jennet Conant is the bestselling author of The Great Secret: The Classified Chemical Weapons Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer. Check out her other books on World II on her website JennetConant.com.

Glenn Corbett, an expert in fire protection, is an Associate Professor of Fire Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Corbett served on the federal advisory committee to the National Construction Safety Team that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and testified before the 9/11 Commission. He serves as technical editor of Fire Engineering magazine.