FOR RELEASE: April 20, 2015

CONTACT: Sam Eskenazi, 202-744-1868, [email protected]

Yale historian Jon Butler, president of the Organization of American Historians, has joined the scholars supporting the Coalition for the National Museum of the American People who will help the museum tell its story. He is the Howard R. Lamar Emeritus Professor of American Studies, History & Religious Studies and is author of The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in a New World Society.

Also joining the scholars' coalition are:

Gwendolyn Hall, Professor of History Emeritus at Rutgers University. She is author of: Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century; and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links;

Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus, University of Cincinnati. He is the author of: Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life; and Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924; and

Thomas Kessner, Distinguished Professor of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of: Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans; and The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1980-1915.

The museum will tell about the making of the American People from the first humans in the Western Hemisphere to the present.