Historians

Historians study the past to create clarity about our present world through their interpretation and preservation of historical events. These scholars provide essential understanding by linking historical legacies to leadership through their work on social history and historical context and cultural memory and public memory. Through their work on historical preservation and American military history and their research on famous Black historians and female historians they determine how we remember and learn from the past.


Our great historical speakers who include famous historians today and literary historians and history educators provide fact-based presentations with storytelling elements that deliver impactful content for academic lectures and corporate events and educational summits. The top history speakers who include best presidential historians and cultural storytellers examine leadership and legacy and historical awareness in their work.


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A. Scott Berg Author

A. Scott Berg is author of four bestselling biographies:Max Perkins: Editor of Genius,winner of the National B... Read More

Category: Authors , Historians

Alan Axelrod Author, Historian, Business Writer

Alan Axelrod is a renowned historian and business writer. He was the co-author of the New York Times bestselle... Read More

Category: Business Speakers , Authors , Historians

Anne C. Bailey African-American Historian and Slave Trade Scholar

Anne C. Bailey is a writer, historian, and a tenured professor of History and Africana Studies at SUNY Bingham... Read More

Category: Authors , Top Black Keynote Speakers , Historians

Annette Gordon-Reed Historian and Law Professor at Harvard University

Annette Gordon-Reed, a renowned author and educator, holds positions as a Professor of History in the Faculty... Read More

Category: Professors , Lawyers and Legal Speakers , Diversity Speakers

Ashley Kahn Music Historian and Journalist

Ashley Kahn is an American music historian, journalist, and producer. In 2014, Kahn co-authored the autobiogra... Read More

Category: Authors , Journalists , Musicians

Brad Meltzer Bestselling Thriller Novelist and History Channel Host

Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, and nine other... Read More

Category: Authors , TV Personalities , Event Hosts

Bruce Feiler New York Times Columnist and Bestselling Author

BRUCE FEILER is one of America’s most popular voices on contemporary life. He writes the “This Life” column fo... Read More

Category: Authors , Journalists , Historians

Caroline Elkins Pulitzer Prize Winning Author and Professor at Harvard University

Professor Elkins's first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, was awarded t... Read More

Category: Professors , Historians

Colin Grant Author & Historian

Colin Grant is an English historian and son of black Jamaican immigrants who explores the legacy of slavery an... Read More

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Daniel Gordis Jewish Historian

Dr. Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College. The author of... Read More

Category: Jewish Speakers , Historians

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