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Experienced public historian passionate about connecting audiences to the past through public memory, family ties, and grief.
Experienced public historian passionate about connecting audiences to the past through public memory, family ties, and grief.
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Elizabeth M. Reese is a historian in the Washington, D.C. area whose research is focused on public memory, family ties, and grief.
Her work has been published in TIME, the Journal of the American Revolution, the New York Times, and can be seen on C-SPAN. Elizabeth was awarded the Scott Hartwig Public History Fellowship at the Civil War Institute in 2015 and the America 250! Commendation Medal in 2024.
Elizabeth is the Senior Manager of Public Programs & Interpretation at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House and has Master of Arts in American History from Gettysburg College. Her first book, Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America’s National Capital Region, was published by The History Press (imprint of Arcadia Publishing) in 2024.
She is currently under contract with the University of Virginia Press for a manuscript exploring how Edwin Booth's grief transformed American theatre and contributed to national healing post-Lincoln assassination.
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