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Dr. Sundue is the Chair of the History Department and has taught history at Drew University for the last 8 years. Her areas of specialization include early American history, American women’s history, American social history, the history of childhood, and the origins of inequality. Dr. Sundue is a published author of Industrious in Their Stations: Young People at Work in Urban America, 1720-1810, University of Virginia Press, 2009. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Harvard University.

Dr. Wyatt Evans is a distinguished lecturer from the OAH speaker series. Trained as an intellectual and cultural historian, his main areas of interest included collective memory and the interaction of the modern state and the individual. His first book, The Legend of John Wilkes Booth (Kansas, 2004), won the Organization of American Historians’ Avery O. Craven Award in 2005 and Drew University’s Bela Kornitzer Prize in 2007. Dr. Evans earned his Ph.D. in History from Drew U

Dr. Miles has taught history at McNeese State University for 21 years. Courses he has taught include U.S. History to 1877, U.S. History Since 1877; the American Indian; the American West; Research Methods, and various other classes on a rotating basis. Publications include “King of the Wildcatters: The Life and Times of Tom Slick”, 1883-1930. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1996. He earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Davis is a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and past director of the University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is currently finishing a book on Post-Bacthist Iraq, Taking Democracy Seriously in Iraq, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Dr. Davis received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Knight has been at Seton Hall teaching Historical Research, Western Civilization and Cold War history since 1998. Before that he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. In addition to his teaching duties, he is currently chair of the History Department. In his research, Dr. Knight has written, among other things, about scientific societies, folklore collectors, ethnographic exhibitions and expeditions, and totalitarianism.

Dr. Maxine Lurie started out working in early American History, first the 17th and then 18th centuries, and then in 1987 was asked to teach a New Jersey History class at Rutgers University. Now she finds herself working in all three areas. Her research focuses on the small state we live in and the complexities of the birth of the American nation. Dr. Lurie earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1968.

Dr. Molesky’s research includes the Enlightenment, World War I and II, the Holocaust, modern philosophy, and classical scholarship. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2000. Dr. Molesky primarily teaches courses in Historical Methods, World War I and II and the History of Western Civilization I and II. In 2004, Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America’s Disastrous Relationship with France he co-authored was published.

Dr. Rzeznik’s research focuses on the development of religious institutions and class dynamics within American religious life, with a particular interest in the history of the Catholic community and the development of Catholic institutions in the United States. He teaches classes on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, urban history, and environmental history. Dr. Rzeznik is currently preparing a book based on the Industrial Era in Philadelphia. He earned his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Sacher is the Associate Department Chair for the History department at UCF. His research interests are in the Civil War, the U.S. South, and 19th Century Politics. Dr. Sacher’s research focuses on politics and society in the nineteenth-century South, particularly during the Civil War era. His book, A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824-1861, (Winner of the 2003 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for best book on Louisiana History) examines antebellum politics and secession in Louisiana. Dr. Sacher earned his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.

Dr. Head earned his Ph.D. of History from the University at Buffalo, the Sate University of New York. His research interests are in Early American Republic, Atlantic World, Maritime History, and U.S. Foreign Relations. He was the Maryland Historical Society, Marion Brewington Prize for Best essay in Chesapeake Maritime History in 2008 for “Baltimore Seafarers, Privateering, and the South American Revolutions, 1816-1820,” Maryland Historical Magazine, 105:4 (Winter 2008), 269-293.

David S. Tanenhaus is Professor and Chair of the UNLV History Department and the James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law. He is also the Editor of Law and History Review, which Cambridge University Press publishes as a quarterly on behalf of the American Society for Legal History: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LHR

He is a graduate of Grinnell College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. History from the University of Chicago. Since coming to UNLV in 1997, he has taught courses on American legal and constitutional history, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, children and society, and introductory surveys of U.S. History.

Dr. Fry received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1970 and 1974 and his B.A. from Davis and Elkins College in 1969. He joined the UNLV faculty in 1975. He teaches courses on U.S. foreign relations, history of the South after 1850, U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and the U.S. history survey. Dr. Fry has published four books, including Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy and Business in Nineteenth Century America (1982) and Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings (2006).

William (Willy) Bauer is an associate professor of history. Dr. Bauer (Wailacki and Concow), is an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and grew up on the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He joined the UNLV faculty in 2009. Dr. Bauer will offer classes on California Indian, American Indian, and American West history.

Charles C. Bolton is Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to that, he was Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. From 1990 to 2000, Bolton was Director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi and also an Assistant and Associate Professor of History.

Bolton received his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1982. After attending a year of law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he decided to return to the study of History and attended Duke University, where he received a MA degree in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1989. Bolton’s primary area of interest is U.S. History in the 19th and 20th centuries, more specifically the history of the U.S. South.

With 13 years’ history teaching experience, Dr. O’Brien’s research interests are in ethnohistory, American Indians of the Southeast, American environmental history (particularly in the South), and the American Revolutionary era. His current book project is a study of the 1849 New Orleans flood, the worst flood to hit that city before Hurricane Katrina and a longer-range project is a study of the Seven Years War. He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Kentucky in 1998.

Dr. Jestice’s research field is the history of religion in medieval Europe. She has published a monograph, Wayward Monks and the Religions Revolution of the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1997). Besides serving as chair of the USM History Department, Dr. Jestice teaches a wide array of courses in the fields of ancient, medieval, and early modern European History.

Dr. Heather Stur is assistant professor of U.S. history, specializing in the Cold War era and U.S. foreign relations. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2008, and her manuscript, “Dragon Ladies, Gentle Warriors, and Girls Next Door: Gender and the Vietnam War,” is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Dr. Stur’s research interests include the Vietnam War, the cultural side of U.S. diplomacy, race and gender studies, oral history, and U.S. urban history.

Professor Farrell teaches courses in World Civilizations and supervises student teachers seeking licensure to teach social studies. She serves as the Mississippi State liaison for the National Council for History Education. Professor Farrell frequently consults with textbook publishers and has authored Discovering Mississippi: A Teacher’s Guide and Resource Book (1994, 1999). In addition, Professor Farrell wrote the proposal that resulted in the three-year, $850,000 U.S. Department of Education grant the department received in September 2002. Professor Farrell earned her Master’s in History from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1986.

Dr. Neiberg is co-director of the Center for the Study of War and Society. He teaches courses in War and Society and the history of modern France, in addition to modern American and world history. Dr. Neiberg specializes in the comparative history of War and Society since 1789, especially the era of the First World War. He the author of Fighting the Great War: A Global History (Harvard University Press, 2005), and the editor of The Great War Reader (New York University Press, 2006). His most recent publication is The Second Battle of the Marne (Indiana University Press, 2007). Dr. Neiberg was appointed to the Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee (DAHAC), which advises the Secretary of the Army on all U. S. Army Historical programs. He is the recent winner of a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship and the Tomlinson Prize for the best book on the history of the First World War.

Dr. Giesberg received her PhD from Boston College in 1997. She has taught at Northern Arizona University, Villanova University, and the University of Pennsylvania, courses on the US Civil War, Nineteenth Century Women’s History, and Reconstruction.

Before teaching college students, Dr. Giesberg taught in the public schools in San Antonio, Texas. She taught both high school and middle school, history, government, and economics. In Arizona, Dr. Giesberg taught history and social studies teaching methods and served as Associate Director of the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance and Humanitarian Values. For the Institute, Dr. Giesberg coordinated seminars and in-service training for teachers, designed pre-service teacher curriculum around tolerance, developed and hosted summer institutes for teachers, and coordinated training seminars with Facing History and Ourselves and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s tolerance pedagogy.

Dr. Sheehan is currently a Full Professor at Villanova University, where she has taught since 1986. Her areas of expertise include the establishment of the Constitution, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Political Parties in United States History. Dr. Sheehan is a published author of James Madison and the Spirit of Republicanism Self-Government, Cambridge University.

Dr. Denenberg is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The College of William and Mary. He began his career as a high school social studies teacher in Pennsylvania. While serving as an elementary school principal and assistant superintendent, he witnessed how many educators struggled with history education at all grade levels. After receiving his Doctor of Education degree from Pennsylvania State University, he went on to become a Professor in the College of Education at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. At Millersville, he devoted much of his time motivating future teachers to make history come alive in America’s classrooms. His goal has always been to encourage future teachers to have true heroes to inspire them to make a difference in society and to share the gift of a hero with their students. A published author of 50 American heroes Every Kid Should Meet!, Toward A Human Curriculum: A Guide to Returning Great People to Classrooms and Homes, and Hooray for Heroes! Books and Activities Kids Want to Share with Their Parents and Teachers.

Dr. Zahniser earned her PhD from the University of Iowa in American Studies/Women’s Studies. She focused on the fifty years around 1900, and the social and women’s history of those changing times. The topics included: The Progressives and Their Networks, which delves into lesser known Progressives like Jane Addams and W.E.B. Du Bois; Everyday Life in America, 1890-1920, an examination of changes in food and transportation; Women in World War I; Women during the 1920s; and the 20th Century Women’s Suffrage Movement and particularly, Alice Paul. Dr. Zahniser is a author, Forthcoming Knopf biography of suffragist Alice Paul, A work initially undertaken by oral historian Amelia R. Fry.

As Department Chair, Dr. Conklin ran graduate and undergraduate programs, gaining national, regional and state accreditations, created undergraduate and graduate Certification programs in Special Education, Teacher Licensure and School Administration. As a Consultant he evaluated grants for US Department of Education, conducted professional learning programs for teachers, business and governmental leaders in the latest research in instructional design, communication and leadership. Currently an Assistant Professor at Georgian Court University he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Administration and Leadership, served on the M.Ed. Graduate Teacher Certification Program rewrite Committee and assisted in the preparation of the Department of Administration and Leadership Teacher Education Accreditation Council proposal. His Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles with areas of expertise in Educational Psychology, Curriculum & Instruction and School Administration, and is a Certified School Superintendent, School Principal and Teacher in the State of New York.

Professor Allen was recently the Ann & Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is an expert on liberal arts education, its history, importance and problems. He is also Chairman and co-founder of Toward A Fair Michigan, whose mission was to further understanding of the equal opportunity issues involved in guaranteeing civil rights for all citizens, and to provide a civic forum for a fair and open exchange of views on the question of affirmative action. He has published extensively, most notably, George Washington: A Collection (Liberty Press) along with many other books. He served previously on the National Council for the Humanities and as Chairman and Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Dr. Allen earned his Ph.D. form Claremont Graduate School.

Dr. Gramer was an Assistant Professor in the History Depart (Teaching/Instructional) and Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy, Department of History at Temple University. With numerous publications such as “Righteous Anger,” Review of Chalmers Johnson’s Nemesis, Peace and Change, (forthcoming). “The Sources of American Conduct,” (co-authored with Richard Immerman), Contribution to the Roundtable Critique of John Gaddis’s Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, Passport (August, 2005): 10-14. “‘Fancy Skullduggery’: Economic Warfare, Enemy Civilians, and the Lessons of World War II,”; Reviews in American History 32 (2004): 413-421.”From Decartelization to Reconcentration: The Mixed Legacy of American-Led Corporate Reconstruction in Germany, and “The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990: A Handbook, ed. Detlef Junker, vol. 1 (Washington and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 287-292. She earned her Ph.D. of History from Rutgers University.

Dr. Cannato is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received his BA with honors in Political Science from Williams College and his PhD in History from Columbia University. At UMASS-Boston, Dr. Cannato teaches courses on New York City history, Boston history, immigration history, and twentieth-century American history. He is the author of American Passage: The History of Ellis Island (HarperCollins, 2009) and The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and his Struggle to Save New York (Basic Books, 2001).

Dr. Young’s major research and teaching interest is in the impact of Dissent and Protest Movements in the United States. He has also done intensive research into seventeenth-century Puritanism. In 2009 he received the Provost’s Award for Innovative teaching in General Education from Temple University and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to present his specialty at Universita Degle Studi Roma Tre. Prior to teaching at Temple University he taught in Germany at Bremen Univsitat and in England at the University of London. In the United States he has taught at Penn State Universtiy, Widener University, and Michigan State University.

Dr. Wilson is the Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and a lecturer at Princeton University. His research interests include American constitutional law, American political thought, and Western political thought. He is the author of Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: A Jurisprudential History and co-editor of three books: American Political Parties & Constitutional Politics, Separation of Powers and Good Government, and The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism.

Dr. O’Donnell started with Holy Cross in 2001 after a six year engagement with Hunter College. His current teaching focuses on Nineteenth-century U.S. including urban, ethnic and political history, and the Irish American experience. His latest books include Ship Ablaze: The Tregedy of the Steamboat General Slocum and 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History. He also co-authored Visions of America: A History of the United States vol 2 in 2009 which also came out as combined volume that same year.

Paul A. Rahe completed a Ph.D. in ancient history at Yale University under the direction of Donald Kagan. In subsequent years, he taught at Cornell University, Franklin and Marshall College, and the University of Tulsa, before accepting a professorship at Hillsdale College, where he also holds The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage. Dr. Rahe’s research focuses on the origins and evolution of self-government in the West. In addition to dozens of chapters on related subjects in edited books and articles in scholarly journals, Dr. Rahe has authored several books including: Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (2010) and Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic (2010).

Dr. Pinsker is currently a Full Professor at Dickinson College where he has taught since 2002. His areas of expertise include Civil War and Reconstruction, Abraham Lincoln, The History of U.S. Presidential Elections and the study of Civil Liberties. Dr. Pinsker is a published author of Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home. New York: Oxford University Press 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, Brasenose College, Oxford, England.

Ken Kersch is founding director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and associate professor of political science, history, and law at Boston College. Professor Kersch has published several journal articles. He was co-editor of the book The Supreme Court and American Political Development (Kansas, 2006), and authored Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge, 2004). He is currently working on a book on the development of constitutional conservatism between the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

Dean of Faculty;William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History and Associate Professor of History, 1999Graduate teaching assistant, SUNY, Albany, 1987-88; graduate teaching assistant, University of Maryland at College Park, 1989-94; assistant professor, St. Thomas Aquinas College, 1994-98; editor-in-chief, The Massachusetts News, 1998-99; John M. Olin Junior Faculty Fellow, 2001-02.

Prof. Franklin, holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University where she focused on a thematic study of the role of patriarchy in the formation of the Cuban slave society while she considered education, religion, charity, marriage, motherhood and slavery. Dr. Franklin in 2005 taught at Florida State University, and then spent five years at the University of Southern Mississippi before teaching at the University of North Alabama. She has articles printed in several publications such as Hispanic American Historical Review, Estudios Sociales Nueva Epoca, and The Southern Quarterly.

Dr. Gibson is a Professor of Political Science at California State University, Chico. Gibson earned his B.A. from Western Kentucky University in 1984, his MA in American Studies from Notre Dame in 1987, and his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1993. Gibson’s primary research interests are focused on the political thought of James Madison and the study of the American Founding. Gibson is the author of Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates Over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic and Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions. He has also published articles in Polity, History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, and The Political Science Reviewer.

Dr. Frank received his B.A. from Brandeis University (1992) and his MA (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) from the University of Florida. He is currently working on two book manuscripts The Second Conquest: Indians, Settlers and Slaves on the Florida Frontierand Those Who Camp at a Distance: The Seminoles and Indians of Florida. He is also editing and writing a new introduction for Roy Nash, Survey of the Seminole Indians of Florida (1931). Before joining the History Department at FSU in 2007, Dr. Frank taught at several universities, most recently at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (2005), a volume that explores race and identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is also the editor of The Early Republic: People and Perspectives (2009) and The American Revolution: People and Perspectives (2007), and he is the author of The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American South (1999). Dr. Frank has published articles in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Florida Historical Quarterly, and several book anthologies.

Prof. Greason, who holds a Ph.D. from Temple University, examines the United States after 1865, emphasizing race relations in suburbs and cities. He has received several awards including Temple University’s Future Faculty Fellowship and Villanova University’s Presidential Scholarship. Honored by the Philadelphia Daily News as a contemporary “Black History Maker” and the New Jersey Historical Commission as a Samuel Smith Fellow, he is just returning from a symposium on American slavery at Columbia University.

Dr. Sheehan-Dean is a professor of history and has taught at the University of Northern Florida since 2003 after coming to Florida after being a Visiting Lecturer at the Virginia Military Institute. His areas of expertise include Civil War, Reconstruction, Abolition and Slavery. Dr. Sheehan-Dean is a published author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. He earned his Ph.D in History from the University of Virginia.

Ms Sink has been a classroom teacher for the past 38 years with experience in elementary, middle and high school. She has taught in Arizona, California and Washington State. Her passion for American history began in 1993 when she participated in the Williamsburg Summer Teachers’ Institute. Prior to developing her expertise in history, her specialty was in reading. She spent many years teaching students to read in the elementary grades and was a frequent presenter at the California Reading Association and the International Reading Association conferences. She began dealing with teaching strategies to use with non-fiction reading and found herself integrating both literacy strategies and content area information. Though her recent teaching and consulting have been focused on the 18^th and 19^th centuries, her strategies lend themselves to most any era of history.

Voted 2011 Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year Aiken County Public School District, James McNeill, a Silver Bluff High World History Teacher, Received this vote officially from the National Council of Social Studies Teachers. He traveled to Houston, Texas, to receive his award as well as make a presentation entitled, “TIME! Thinking Chronologically in the Classroom.” Mr. McNeill’s past accolades include being named the District Teacher of the Year in 1997, a South Carolina Teacher of the year finalist, and he is a well known advocate and sponsor for the national History Day program. He has been an educator for nearly 30 years including 9 years at Schofield Middle, 14 years at Silver Bluff High, and 2 years at SC Dept of Archives & History.

Ms Ferrucci has 21 years teaching experience in the Franklin Twp Public Schools system which include teaching AP/Honors United States History classes. For the past 5 year Ms Ferrucci has served as Supervisor of Teacher Instructions at Delsea Regional High School. Her departments include MS Social, HS History, Industrial Arts and Technology, Business, Family and Consumer Science. Her responsibilities include observations, completion of APR and PDP, mentoring of teachers regarding newest data driven instructional strategies, monitoring ELL students, assisting CTE instructors and Perkins grant.

Dr. Century earned a BA in Biology at Claflin College, a Master’s in Science Education from South Carolina University and a PhD from Temple University, also in Science Education. This naturally talented teacher and actor couples scientific methods with creative imagination in order to discover how the historical characters she interprets would respond to a given situation. An inspiring educator whose students have returned year after year to thank. Dr. Century is a published author, writing under the name Emily Nelson, and is an accomplished singer.

With a degree in photojournalism from the Newhouse School of Syracuse University, and experience as a corporate fellow for 25+ years, Dean Malissa was engaged in the world of business but was not of the world of business Mr. Malissa’s theater credits include five productions at the Walnut Street Theatre, as well as industrial films and commercials. Dean was introduced by American Historical Theatre’s Kim Hanley to AHT Founders William and Pamela Sommerfield. By February of 2001, Dean had begun leading musters, and had cobbled together George Washington history modules that reflected careful research. Mr. Sommerfield, the first, and only, historical interpreter of George Washington at Mount Vernon at that time, then introduced Mr. Malissa to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association as the General. About 2005, the mantle was being passed. Now, portraying George Washington is Dean Malissa’s full-time job.
At a commanding height of 6’5″, Dean Malissa is as tall, or taller, than Commander-in-Chief George Washington. Both men had reddish hair, and Malissa shares Washington’s ability to dance minuets, jigs and reels, as well as to ride. Mr. Malissa continues to add to his portrayal based on source, text and fact; and because he is adept at reading his audience, his portrayal is further enriched by audience interaction. Dean Malissa has portrayed George Washington at venues that include the White House’s East Room, Mount Vernon, National Archives, National Portrait Gallery, National Constitution Center, Liberty Hall, Valley Forge Historical Park, Independence National Historical Park, Mt. Rushmore, United Airlines to China, Deshler-Morris House, City Tavern, the Masons of Maryland, Trenton Patriot’s Week and Texas A&M.

Acclaimed actor and playwright Mike Wiley has spent the last decade fulfilling his mission to bring educational theatre to young audiences and communities across the country. In the early days of his career, Wiley found few theatrical resources to shine a light on key events and figures in African-American history. To bring these stories to life, he started his own production company. Through his performances, Wiley has introduced countless students and communities to the legacies of Emmett Till, Henry “Box” Brown and more. His most recent works include a one-man play based on Tim Tyson’s memoir Blood Done Sign My Name and The Parchman Hour, an ensemble production celebrating the bravery and determination of the Freedom Riders who risked their lives to desegregate Southern interstate bus travel in 1961. Mike Wiley has a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the 2010 Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to his numerous school and community performances, he has also appeared on Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and National Geographic Channel and has been featured in Our Statemagazine and on PBS’ North Carolina Now and WUNC’s The State of Things.

Rachael Rainwater delights and educates audiences of all ages as she brings Lady Liberty to life during visits to schools, libraries and community events with her Lady Liberty Live program. In creating her educational-meets-fact-filled presentation, Rainwater has conducted extensive — and ongoing — research on the history of this great symbol of our nation, as well as research on Ellis Island. In turn, she’s received rave reviews from educators and students at each and every presentation across several states, where she’s captivated audiences with her first-person account of the history of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island!