Niall Ferguson specializes in financial and economic history as well as the history of empire and is best known for his views on imperialism and colonialism. He is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is author of The War of the World, a book about the causes and consequences of war and genocide in the first half of the 20th century.

Sol Gittleman is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor at Tufts University -- one of three current "university professors" at the school. He has been a celebrated lecturer on the Tufts campus since he started teaching there in 1966. From 1981 until 2002 he was the school's provost, and today he continues to teach on German Civilization and the rise of Nazism, immigration, and American baseball history.

William Safire from 1972 to early 2005, wrote a political column on the Op-ed pages of The New York Times, and continues to write a Sunday column, "On Language," which has appeared in The New York Times ...

David McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a "master of the art of narrative history," "a matchless writer." He is twice winner of the National Book Award, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In December 2006 he received the ...

Bryan Mark Rigg is the author of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers.

Raised as a Protestant in the Texas Bible Belt, Bryan was surprised to learn of his own Jewish ancestry while researching his family tree in Germany. This ...

Champion sailor, award-winning scholar and bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick is a lively and illuminating speaker on all things historical and maritime.

Nathaniel first gained fame for his nonfiction classic In the Heart of the ...

Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University, is one of America's most gifted, provocative and important public intellectuals. Dr. West has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award ...

Simon Schama studied history at Cambridge University where from 1966 to 1976 he was Fellow of Christ's College. From 1976 to 1980 he was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1980 to 1993 he was Professor of ...

Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995 and 2005, Penguin 1996), Galileo's Daughter (Walker 1999, Penguin 2000) and The Planets (Viking, 2005). In her thirty years as a science journalist ...