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Eugene Robinson is an award-winning journalist, political analyst on MSNBC, and the author of four books, most recently Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America . Through his own family’s well-documented history, the book...

David Hume Kennerly has spent nearly six decades photographing history as it unfolded. At age 25, he became one of the youngest recipients of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for his coverage of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, refugees fleeing...

Craig Fehrman is a journalist, historian, and the author of This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark, which offers a fresh account of one of the defining expeditions in American history and incorporates the stories of those long left out of the historical narrative. Since 1998, the Oregon Historical Society has presented the Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series, bringing together the nation’s top historians and award-winning authors for thought-provoking evenings of history. The...

Beverly Gage is a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian at Yale University and author of This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S. History, an exploration of the people, places, and stories that have shaped America as the nation marks its 250th anniversary. Since 1998, the Oregon Historical Society has presented the Mark O. Hatfield Lecture Series, bringing together the nation’s top historians and award-winning authors for thought-provoking evenings of history. The series began at the...