Russell Lewis's Page
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- School / Library / Organization Affiliation
- Chicago History Museum
- Website
- http://www.chicagohs.org/
- http://@RL_Lewis
- About Me
- Russell Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Historian of the Chicago History Museum, is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the museum’s mission to creatively explore and showcase Chicago’s history and culture, and to preserve, manage, build, and make accessible to the public, the Chicago History Museum’s collection of more than 22 million documents and objects. He has been a member of the Chicago Historical Society and Chicago History Museum’s staff since 1982.
Lewis is author of Historic Photos of Chicago’s World’s Fair published in 2010, Historic Photos of Chicago published in 2006, and has published articles in the Public Historian, Science, Museum News, and Chicago History Magazine. He has been involved in the development of numerous exhibitions, including We The People: Creating A New Nation, 1765-1820, A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln, Chicago: Crossroads of America, Facing Freedom, and the community history initiative, Neighborhoods: Keepers of Culture. He has also led a number of digitization projects, including The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory, Wet with Blood: The Investigation of Mary Todd Lincolns’ Cloak, and Studs Terkel: Conversations with America, and the online version of The Chicago Encyclopedia. He served as project director for the $27.8 million renovation of the Chicago History Museum.
Lewis serves on the boards of the Chicago Historical Society, the Illinois State Historical Society, the Chicago Metro History Education Center. He is also a co-director of the Chicago History Museum’s Urban History Seminar, and he is the American Association for State and Local History Book Series Editor. Lewis has a BA in historical archeology from the University of Florida and an MA in American culture from the University of Michigan.
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