Jamie Stiehm is a columnist on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Before that, she spent 10 years as a metropolitan reporter at The Baltimore Sun. She is the author of The War Within, about witnessing the Jan. 6th mob attack on the Capitol.

Ms. Stiehm (or Jamie) grew up in Madison, Wis. and Santa Monica, Ca. Then she went east and attended Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia.

Her opinion columns have appeared widely across the United States. The New York Times published five of her history essays in its “Disunion” series on the Civil War. 

Judith E. Kalb earned a BA in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University and a joint PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Humanities at Stanford University. Dr. Kalb’s research focuses on the interactions between Russian culture and the Greco-Roman classical tradition. Her book Russia’s Rome: Imperial Visions, Messianic Dreams, 1890-1930, examines the image of ancient Rome in the writings of Russian modernists. Her new project focuses on Russia’s reception of Homer. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Kalb enjoys introducing students to the incredible world of Russian culture and the larger European literary tradition of which it forms a part.

Sara Fitzgerald is a former Washington Post editor who combines her love of writing and history to tell the compelling stories of little-known women. Her latest book, "The Silenced Muse: Emily Hale, T. S. Eliot, and the Role of a Lifetime," is the first full-length biography of Emily Hale, the American actress and college professor who was Eliot's first love and longtime confidante. Her other books include "Elly Peterson: 'Mother' of the Moderates" (2011), which was recognized as a 2012 Book of the Year by the Library of Michigan and by the Historical Society of Michigan; "Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX" (2020); and The Poet's Girl (2020), a novel about Emily Hale. Fitzgerald majored in history and journalism at the University of Michigan and was the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of The Michigan Daily. She lives in Northern Virginia.