• Harry L. Watson, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Dr. Walter Fleming, head of Native American Studies at Montana State University

• Sarah Ross, Associate Professor of History at Boston College

• Benjamin Hudson, Professor of History and Medieval Studies at PennState

• The Wanderer, tenth century poem

• Alex Dressler , Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

• Eckart Frahm, Professor of Assyriology at Yale University

• “It Never Was Golden”, the Aeon essay about nostalgia narratives by Alan Levinovitz 

• “American Life Is Too Fast”, the 1923 report in the New York Times

• “I Used to Be a Human Being”, Andrew Sullivan’s piece in New York Magazine