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Historian Guides

Renowned experts, scholars, and authors, our Historian Guides possess not only extensive knowledge of their respective subjects, but also the special ability to make each HistoryAmerica tour a compelling story unfolding before your eyes. Under their guidance your “learning vacation” becomes a timeless journey on which you can recapture the excitement of the great events of American history.


Catherine Clinton

Catherine Clinton is a scholar, writer, and teacher. She holds degrees from Harvard, Sussex, and Princeton — and a chair in U.S. History at Queens University in Belfast. She previously has taught at Union College, Brandeis University, Wesleyan University, and Harvard University — in both the Department of African American Studies and the Department of History. Her biography, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, was named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004 by The Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune. She is a member of the advisory committee to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Bicentennial Commission and recently published Mrs. Lincoln: A Life.

Clinton

Latifah Chinnery

Latifah Chinnery holds a master's degree from City College, City University of New York, and doctoral studies at New York University and Hull University in London. Pursuing a life-long interest in education, she has been a teacher in Harlem and at City College and the University of the Virgin Islands. As a native New Yorker who specializes in historical and cultural tours of the Big Apple, Latifah possesses not only extensive insider knowledge of the city, but the exceptional ability to make the immigration story come alive and become a timeless journey.

McPherson

Neil Mangum

Neil Mangum had a 34-year career with the National Park Service, mostly in the West. He served twice at Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument, first as chief historian and second as park superintendent. He is the author of The Battle of the Rosebud: Prelude to the Little Big Horn and more than 50 articles on the Indian wars. Always a popular historian guide with HistoryAmerica’s travelers, Neil is renowned for his research, outstanding interpretive skills, and a personality especially suited to capturing the excitement of historical events.

Mangum

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