Lisa F. Moore
@femlfm.bsky.social
Champagne aficionado; piquant wit; writer; feminist; attorney. “I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.” Middle Child/GenX/Auntie Paris via Seattle 🥂💋
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
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
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
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
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
@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.
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
@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
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
