The photography editors below lent their amazing talents to this extraordinary project. They reviewed photos submitted by amateurs, students, stringers and contract professionals alike - editing hundreds of thousands of photos and selecting the best for America 24/7 books.

We are very grateful to each of the photo editors for contributing their time and talents to make a project of this size and scope possible.

J. David Ake, Associated Press
Caren Alpert, formerly Health Magazine
Simon Barnett, Newsweek
Caroline Couig, San Jose Mercury News
Deborah Dragon, Rolling Stone
Michel duCille, The Washington Post
Victor Fisher, formerly Associated Press; Victor Fisher Photographics
Frank Folwell, USA Today
MaryAnne Golon, Time Magazine
Liz Grady, formerly National Geographic
Randall Greenwell, San Francisco Chronicle
C. Thomas Hardin, formerly The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Detroit Free Press
Kathleen Hennessy, San Francisco Chronicle
Scot Jahn, US News & World Report
Steve Jessmore, The Flint Journal
John Kaplan, University of Florida
Kim Komenich, San Francisco Chronicle
Eliane Laffont, Hachette Filipacchi Media
Andrew Locke, MSNBC
Jose Lopez, The New York Times
Maria Mann, Creative Eye, formerly AFP
Bill Marr, Open Books LLC, formerly National Geographic
Michele McNally, Fortune Magazine
James Merithew, San Francisco Chronicle
Eric Meskauskas, The New York Daily News
Maddy Miller, People Magazine
Michelle Molloy, Newsweek
Dolores Morrison, The New York Daily News
Karen Mullarkey, formerly Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated; KAM Productions
Larry Nighswander, Ohio University School of Visual Communication
Jim Preston, The Baltimore Sun
Sarah Rozen, formerly Newsweek
Mike Smith, The New York Times
Neal Ulevich, formerly Associated Press