Advisory Board

“President Taylor and His Cabinet,” lithograph from drawing by Francis D’Avignon, from daguerreotypes by Mathew B. Brady, 1849 (Library of Congress)

 

David C. Barker (Cochair)
American University and National Science Foundation
Expertise: congressional and presidential studies, social and economic sciences

Rachelle Moyer Francis (Cochair)
Aurora Historical Society/Millard Fillmore Presidential Site
Expertise: public history, elementary education

Sheila Blackford
Miller Center at the University of Virginia
Expertise: information sciences, presidents

Michael W. Fitzgerald
St. Olaf College
Expertise: history of race, Southern politics

Carlton Houston
descendant of Zachary Taylor and Annie (enslaved woman); Instagram storyteller @myhistoryvibe
Expertise: communications, Black genealogy

Barbara Alice Mann
University of Toledo
Expertise: Indigenous culture and history, Black culture and history, presidents

Aaron L. Mason
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
Expertise: citizenship studies, presidents, Indigenous history

Matthew Reeves
James Madison’s Montpelier
Expertise: archaeology, slavery

Constance B. Schulz
University of South Carolina
Expertise: documentary editing, public history, US women’s and Revolutionary Era history

Elizabeth Lorelei Thacker-Estrada
Institute for Historical Study
Expertise: library science, history of women and first ladies

Cynthia M. Van Ness
Buffalo History Museum
Expertise: libraries and archives, digitization

Jonathan W. White
Christopher Newport University
Expertise: Black history, presidential history, documentary editing