April 20, 2015

Leader of American Historians Joins Museum's Scholar Coalition

Four New Scholars Aboard To Help Tell American People Story

Yale historian Jon Butler, president of the Organization of American Historians, has joined the scholars supporting the Coalition for the National Museum of the American People who will help the museum tell its story. He is the Howard R. Lamar Emeritus Professor of American Studies, History & Religious Studies and is author of The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in a New World Society.

Also joining the scholars' coalition are:

Gwendolyn Hall

Professor of History Emeritus at Rutgers University

She is author of: Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century; and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links

Roger Daniels

Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus, University of Cincinnati

He is the author of: Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life; and Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924; and

Thomas Kessner

Distinguished Professor of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York

He is the author of: Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans; and The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1980-1915.

The museum will tell about the making of the American People from the first humans in the Western Hemisphere to the present.

For a complete list of the 67 scholars in the museum coalition, click here. To learn more about the National Museum of the American People: www.nmap2015.com.