Samarth Desai is a 2020 graduate of Harvard College, having concentrated in Social Studies with a focus on constitutional law, American foreign policy, and political economy. He is passionate about history and is a recognized expert in exploring the similarities in great speeches and how leaders and great orators use oratory skills to move their audiences.  At Harvard, he served as President and Captain of the Harvard Mock Trial Association, co-founded the Alexander Hamilton Society, and worked as a Research Assistant to Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman.  In this episode, Samarth analyses how great leaders make great speeches by imitating other leaders' speeches and using rhetoric tools for maximal effect. 

Maria Jimenez Moya is a Mexican journalist based in Houston who writes about minority communities across Texas. Her work has appeared in Cambridge Chronicle, DigBoston, POLITICO, Texas Monthly, Daily Free Press, and the New York Times. Maria has a B.A. in International Relations with a focus on environmental sustainability and development and Latin America.  Maria talks about bridging cultures and how to use media to negotiate with dictatorships. 

Mr. Randall Littlefield is a renowned history teacher with a wide-ranging background in independent and public charter schools.  His accolades include fellowships through the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Civil War Institute, the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program in Russia, and last but certainly not least, studying the Holocaust in Poland and at Yad Vashem.  In this episode, he talks about choiceless choices and how we should learn to remove blinders when evaluating history. 

Meghan Riley is a Fulbright scholar and doctoral candidate in European history.  She is fluent and has conducted original research in four languages.  In this podcast, Meghan talks about humanitarian groups from the Holocaust, the importance of historical fiction and oral history, and the advantage of being multilingual as a historian.

Listen in to my fireside chat with Professor Jan Christopher Horak (Chapman University, UCLA, University of Miami Faculty member). Professor Horak is a renowned German American film historian and film restorer.  We discussed an array of very interesting topics including disinformation, the Holocaust, Fascism, and how South America became a haven for Nazi war criminals after WWII.