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Jim Ambuske

Charlottesville, VA | Director of Digital History, Inpursuit.org; Omohundro Institute Digital Fellow; Creator and narrator, Worlds Turned Upside Down; co-host, Revolutions in Retrospect, Scholar in Residence, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona University

Topics of Expertise digital public history early American legal history emigration and the American Revolution Loyalism Origins and history of the American Revolution Scotland transatlantic legal history

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Patrick Bottiger

Gambier, OH | Associate Professor of History

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Knowledge Systems Public History and Agriculture Secondary Education the Great Lakes

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Liz Covart

Boston, MA | Co-Founder, Clio Digital Media; Creator & Host, Ben Franklin’s World

Topics of Expertise AI and history American Revolution Articles of Confederation Digital media literacy and civics Early American politics and culture Origins of the American Union Speaking with the public about history and civics

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Christopher E. Czerwonka

Albany, NY | Research Fellow, SUNY Albany; Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine

Topics of Expertise Bioethics Civil Rights and Liberties Constitutional Law Evidence FDR Federal Criminal Procedure Immigration Law and Policy Jury Trials Legal History Legal Medicine People with Disabilities in the Early Republic Presidential Libraries Simulation-Based Learning Tax

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Stewart Davenport

Los Angeles, CA | Professor of American History, Pepperdine University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Civic Nationalism vs. Racial Nationalism Civil War Jacksonian America public history

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Joanne Freeman

New Haven, CT | Alan Boles Class of 1929 Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University

Topics of Expertise American founders American Revolution and Early Republic creation of the Constitution and Ratification Early American Presidency freedom of the press meanings of democracy political culture political violence sectionalism two-party system U.S. Congress

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Michael Hattem

New Haven, CT | Associate Director, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Declaration of Independence and Constitution in culture founding principles Historical Memory museum history and practice

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Sheri Ann Huerta

Fairfax, VA | Adjunct Professor, Honors College, George Mason University

Topics of Expertise free people of color freedom and manumission gender and slavery public history slavery and public memory Slavery in Virginia and law

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Donald F. Johnson

Fargo, ND | Associate Professor of History, North Dakota State University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution loyalism and political allegiance memory and memorialization military occupation political violence popular politics war and society

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Jane Kamensky

Charlottesville, VA | President and CEO, Monticello; Professor Emerita, Harvard University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Declaration of Independence Educating for American Democracy roadmap women and civil society

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CJ Martin

Worcester, MA | Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross

Topics of Expertise abolitionist movement and voting Black abolitionists party politics politics of slavery race racial justice and politics Republican Party Whig Party

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Shawn McKay

Williamsburg, VA | Volunteer Colonial Williamsburg; Retired Naval Officer

Topics of Expertise Archiving Black Americans in Colonial America origins of democracy Social history of Early American Republic

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Isabela Morales

Princeton, NJ | Author and Public Historian

Topics of Expertise African American history Legal History Museum education public history slavery and emancipation social/racial justice movements

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J. Patrick Mullins

Milwaukee, WI | Associate Professor of History and Public History Director

Topics of Expertise American Revolution civic culture influence of religion and Enlightenment natural rights political resistance visual culture and politics

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Kieran J. O’Keefe

Batesville, AR | Assistant Professor of History, Lyon College

Topics of Expertise American Revolution early American politics Memory New York Political Mobilization Revolutionary War Violence in Early America

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Jessica Choppin Roney

Philadelphia, PA | Director Designate of the Library Company of Philadelphia and Associate Professor, Temple University

Topics of Expertise admission of states American Revolution Colonial America early constitutional history political history voluntary associations western expansion

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Emily Sneff

Royersford, PA | Historian and Consulting Curator

Topics of Expertise Declaration of Independence Founders

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John Suval

Capon Bridge, WV | Independent Scholar

Topics of Expertise 19th-century U.S. history Democracy and cultural expression Democracy and the American West Jacksonian political culture Public lands

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John C. Winters

Alexandria, VA | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RRCHNM

Topics of Expertise history of memory history of museums imperial history Native American history

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