Russell Lewis

Russell Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Historian of the Chicago History Museum and member of the Chicago Historical Society and Chicago History Museum's staff since 1982, has held numerous editorial and director positions prior to his current appointment. He has been involved in developing numerous exhibitions, including We the People: Creating a New Nation, 1765 1820 and A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln. He served as project director for the exhibition Chicago Goes to...See more

Russell Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Historian of the Chicago History Museum and member of the Chicago Historical Society and Chicago History Museum's staff since 1982, has held numerous editorial and director positions prior to his current appointment. He has been involved in developing numerous exhibitions, including We the People: Creating a New Nation, 1765 1820 and A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln. He served as project director for the exhibition Chicago Goes to War, 1941-45, the urban history conference Modes of Inquiry for American City History, 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 Lincoln s Cloak, and Studs Terkel: Conversations with America, and the online version of The Chicago Encyclopedia. Lewis is the author of Historic Photos of Chicago (2006), also available from Turner Publishing. He holds a B.A. in historical archeology from the University of Florida and an M.A. in American culture from the University of Michigan. See less