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Scott Syfert is an attorney at Moore & Van Allen in Charlotte. He is a founder of the May 20th Society, a non-profit dedicated to commemorating the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. He writes frequently on local history.

Jodi Daynard is the author of The Place Within: Portraits of the American Landscape by 20 Contemporary Writers. Her essays and stories have been widely published. She has taught writing at Harvard University and M.I.T.

Jack Kelly is the author of Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics and has published five novels. He is currently writing a nonfiction book about the fighting men and women of the Revolution.

Dr. Tony Zeiss is President of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina. His most recent book focuses on the life of Thomas Young and is titled “Backcountry Fury, A Sixteen-Year-Old Patriot in the Revolutionary War.”

Dr. Selig serves as a historical consultant and project historian to the National Park Service for the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail (W3R-NHT). A recipient of the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques, he contributes regularly to popular and scholarly historical journals and magazines

Ira Stoll is the author of Samuel Adams: A Life. He is the editor of FutureOfCapitalism.com and previously served as Washington correspondent and managing editor of The Forward and as North American editor of the Jerusalem Post.

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The William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.