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Illustrating the Guilded Age
Guest Scholars

During the weeklong National Endowment for the Humanities “We the People 2008 Landmarks of American History and Culture” workshop for community college faculty at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, guest scholars discussed key themes of their work, suggested teaching strategies, and engaged in breakout discussion sessions with participating faculty The scholars included:
Summers
Mark Summers, author of The Era of Good Stealings, The Gilded Age, and Party Games: Getting, Keeping, and Using Power in Gilded Age Politics, is professor of history at the University of Kentucky.
Coward John Coward is a professor of communication at the University of Tulsa and the author of The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press 1820-1890 (1999).
Caswell Lucy Shelton Caswell is a professor of history and curator of the Cartoon Research Library at the Ohio State University. She has curated many exhibitions on cartoons and comic art and published many articles on cartoon and popular culture.
Brown

Joshua Brown, author of Between the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America and co-author of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction (2005), is professor of history at the City University of New York.

Reitano Joanne Reitano, author of The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age (1994) and The Restless City: A Short History of New York (2006) is a professor of history at La Guardia Community College, City University of New York.
Bok Chip Bok is the staff editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal and author of Bok! The 9.11 Crisis in Political Cartoons (2002) and A Recent History of the U.S. in Political Cartoons (2005).
S. Culbertson Steven L. Culbertson, Project Director, is a professor of communications and humanities at Owens Community College. His expertise includes Thomas Edison, and he was co-curator of the exhibit “Thomas Edison and the Music Makers” at the Hayes Presidential Center.
T. Culbertson

Thomas Culbertson is the Executive Director of the Hayes Presidential Center. His expertise includes Thomas Nast.  And he is the co-curator of the exhibit “Golden Age of American Political Press” at the Hayes Presidential Center.

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