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Ric Burns
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ric Burns is best known for his epic series, New York: A Documentary Film. His other American Experience films include Coney Island, The Donner Party, The Way West, and Ansel Adams.

Niall Ferguson
Historian Niall Ferguson holds the John E. Herzog Family Chair in Financial History at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is the author of The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.

Mike Wallace
Historian Mike Wallace won the Pulitzer Prize for the book he co-authored with Ted Burrows, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. He is the founder of the Gotham Project for New York City History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Carol Willis
Architectural historian Carol Willis is the founding director of the Skyscraper Museum in New York City and author of Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago.