H.W. Brands (Self - Author, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West), Virginia Scharff (Self - Author, Home Lands: How Women Made the West), Peter Stark (Self - Author, Astoria), Roberta Conner (Self - Member of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla: Director of Tamástslikt Cultural Institute), Chris Enss (Self - Author, West Went the World: Women Evangelists), Blaine Harden (Self - Author, Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing), Yohuru Williams (Self - Professor of History: University of St. Thomas), Doris Kearns Goodwin (Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Presidential Historian), Clay Jenkinson (Self - Author, The Character of Meriwether Lewis), Christy Coleman (Self - Public Historian)