Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian, bestselling author, and Emmy winner. He is the NBC News Presidential Historian, a contributor to the PBS NewsHour, and has been honored with multiple honorary degrees.

He is an alumnus of Andover, Williams College, and Harvard Business School, where he studied leadership in both the private and public sectors. He has served as a historian at the Smithsonian, a resident scholar at Oxford University, and a senior fellow of the Annenberg Foundation. His most recent book, Presidents of War, tells the epic story of the American presidents who have waged our major wars.

In addition to the National Archives Foundation, he has served as a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.