Jon Meacham is a renowned presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, contributing editor at TIME and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Society of American Historians, Meacham is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope with an afterword by John Lewis is Meacham’s most recent book. It’s an intimate and revealing portrait of Civil Rights icon and longtime U.S. Congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present.
David Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. At Yale University he is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. In this capacity, Blight organizes conferences, working groups, lectures, the administering of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize and many public outreach programs regarding the history of slavery and its abolition. He is the author of numerous books, including Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, a dramatic biography of one of the most important Americans of the 19th century.
