David R Brigham

David R. Brigham is the President and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's largest and most important research libraries, with 21 million documents spanning government, law, banking and finance, women's studies, ethnic studies, African American history and culture, family history, and arts and culture. He was previously the President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Priscilla Payne Hurd Executive Director of the Allentown Art Museum, and...See more

David R. Brigham is the President and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's largest and most important research libraries, with 21 million documents spanning government, law, banking and finance, women's studies, ethnic studies, African American history and culture, family history, and arts and culture. He was previously the President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Priscilla Payne Hurd Executive Director of the Allentown Art Museum, and Director of Collections and Exhibitions and Curator of Art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. Dr. Brigham studied English and Accounting at the University of Connecticut before pursuing a master's degree in Museum Studies/American Civilization and a doctorate in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania, and is the editor of Two Hundred Years: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1824-2024 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) and author of Public Culture in the Early Republic: Peale's Museum and Its Audience (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995). See less