What is Public History and Why Do We Need It?

Cynthia M. Koch is Historian in Residence and Director of History Programing for our FDR Foundation at Adams House, Harvard University. She was Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York and subsequently Senior Adviser to the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives. She was Public Historian in Residence at Bard College where she taught courses in public history and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.  

Previously Dr. Koch was Associate Director of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community, a national public policy research group at the University of Pennsylvania. She served as Executive Director (1993-1997) of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was Director (1979-1993) of the National Historic Landmark Old Barracks Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, where she led a $10.3 million project of capital restoration and museum development. She has many publications on the Roosevelts and other topics.  

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