Senator Chris Coons of Delaware is an American lawyer and former Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee. Coons tells how Shirley Bulah's walk to a segregated school led to a Delaware ruling that helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education. #WeAreAmerica250

Charles "Chip" Storey is a board member and historian for the Fort Mose Historical Society. Storey tells the story of Fort Mose, the first legally sanctioned free Black community in America, founded by fugitives from slavery in Spanish Florida. #WeAreAmerica250

Na’Zir McFadden is an acclaimed American orchestral conductor and the Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony. McFadden profiles composer Aaron Copland, whose Pulitzer-winning works captured the American landscape and forged a distinctive national sound. #WeAreAmerica250

Laura Freedman Pedrick is a board member of the Newport String Project and former chair of TSF Newport. Pedrick recounts George Washington's 1790 letter to Newport's Hebrew congregation, a founding promise of religious liberty that "gives to bigotry no sanction." #WeAreAmerica250

@joshcowenmi.bsky.social is a professor of education policy at Michigan State University, where he founded the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative. Cowen describes the impact of the 1862 Morrill Act, which gave us our state colleges and universities. #WeAreAmerica250

Garry Trudeau, the satirist behind Pulitzer-winning Doonesbury, profiles World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin, whose infantrymen Willie and Joe gave weary American soldiers a champion and a laugh when they needed it most. #WeAreAmerica250

Born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, Sherrod Brown is a champion for working families. He is running for U.S. Senate in Ohio. Here, Brown recounts the 1894 Cripple Creek miners' strike, the only time a state militia was deployed in support of striking workers. #WeAreAmerica250

Eric Arnesen is an American historian, professor, and author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. Arnesen recounts the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, whose violent suppression led Congress to bar the use of the U.S. military against civilians.

Alexandra Vidal is a member of the Youth250 Bureau bringing youth voice and influence to the U.S. 250th commemoration and the next chapter of U.S. history. Vidal shares the cultural and artistic influence of Star Wars, the space opera that transformed the film industry. #WeAreAmerica250

Mariann Edgar Budde serves as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, the first woman elected to the role. She is the author of "How We Learn to Be Brave." Here, she explains how the 1969 Stonewall Uprising marked a new chapter in the cause of human freedom. #WeAreAmerica250

Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire is a lawmaker, attorney, and one of only three women in U.S. history elected as both a U.S. Senator and a state governor. Hassan explains how the 1944 Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire helped to create the modern global economic order. #WeAreAmerica250

Victoria A. Smalls is a Gullah native of South Carolina, award-winning Gullah Geechee cultural preservationist, artist and curator. Here, she tells how Robert Smalls escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and rose to become a Union captain and U.S. congressman. #WeAreAmerica250

@radiofreetom.bsky.social is an author, commentator, 5X undefeated Jeopardy! champion, and Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. Nichols profiles James A. Garfield, who defied his era to champion Black civil rights more forcefully than any president until Lyndon Johnson. #WeAreAmerica250

Fran Drescher is an iconic comedic actress, NYT bestselling author, producer, and former president of SAG-AFTRA best known for her role in the hit sitcom The Nanny. Drescher celebrates I Love Lucy, the groundbreaking 1951 sitcom that set the standard for television comedy. #WeAreAmerica250

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social is a historian, Guggenheim Fellow, author of White Flight and One Nation Under God, and co-editor of Myth America. Kruze examines the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights era. #WeAreAmerica250

Keith Ellison was first elected @ag.state.mn.us in 2018 after serving six terms in Congress. Ellison traces the layered history of Minnesota's Fort Snelling, from Dred Scott and the Dakota War to its role in immigration enforcement today. #WeAreAmerica250

Maggie Bohara is the co-founder and director of @weareamericamarch.bsky.social, a grassroots movement organizing 160-mile walks for democracy and civil rights. Bohara tells how Jacob Coxey's 1894 march of the unemployed on Washington foreshadowed the New Deal's public works. #WeAreAmerica250

Lexy White is a social media producer, journalist and founder of Paddock Party LA, a social club for female and queer Motorsport fans. White celebrates the Indianapolis 500, the race that fueled America's car culture and became a treasured national tradition. #WeAreAmerica250

Historian Tyler McGraw is a writer for the Emerging Civil War community and host of the podcast The Unfiltered Historian. McGraw recounts how General U.S. Grant's refusal to retreat at the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness marked the turning point that would wear the Confederacy down. #WeAreAmerica250

Peabody Award-winning storyteller and journalist, Al Letson, profiles Dwayne McDuffie, the trailblazing writer and artist who brought realistic Black representation to comic books and animation. #WeAreAmerica250

Vernon Burton, historian and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, examines the Confederacy's Cornerstone Speech—in which Alexander Stephens declared slavery and white supremacy its founding principle, a claim the Union defeated and answered with the Reconstruction Amendments. #WeAreAmerica250

Professor Ted Widmer is a historian, author, and the former senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton. Widmer travels the history of Route 66, the iconic "Main Street of America" that carried Depression migrants, wartime troops, and postwar dreamers across the country. #WeAreAmerica250

@rebeccanagle.bsky.social is an award-winning journalist, a citizen of Cherokee Nation, and the host of the First America podcast. Nagle tells the story of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native-run newspaper in America, which fought for Cherokee land and sovereignty and still publishes today.

Tom Vilsack is the former Secretary of Agriculture, former governor of Iowa, and CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. Vilsack profiles Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture and saved more than a billion lives from famine. #WeAreAmerica250

@hcrichardson.bsky.social is an award-winning historian and the author of Letters from an American. Richardson revisits the Declaration of Independence and the principles of equality and self-government that set America on the road to becoming "the last, best hope of Earth." #WeAreAmerica250

Dr. Dianne Johnson-Feelings is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Johnson-Feelings explores the Harlem Renaissance, the explosion of Black art, music, and literature that reshaped American culture in the early twentieth century. #WeAreAmerica250

Elizabeth R. Varon is an award-winning historian and the author of seven books. Varon profiles Clara Barton, the Civil War "angel of the battlefield" who founded the American Red Cross and championed women's suffrage. #WeAreAmerica250

Elizabeth R. Varon is an award-winning historian and the author of seven books on the Civil War era. Varon profiles Clara Barton, the Civil War "angel of the battlefield" who founded the American Red Cross and championed women's suffrage. #WeAreAmerica250

@byalexcoffey.bsky.social is a second-gen sportswriter known for her work for The Athletic and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Coffey tells how sportswriter Melissa Ludtke's 1977 lawsuit won female journalists equal access to locker rooms and expanded opportunities for women in sports media.

Senator Andy Kim is an American politician and former diplomat from New Jersey, working as a key defender against Medicare and Medicaid cuts and privatization. Senator Kim traces the road to Medicare and Medicaid, from Truman's Fair Deal to Lyndon Johnson's expansive 1965 signing. #WeAreAmerica250