Brent D. Glass

Photograph (c) Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

About The Author

Brent D. Glass is Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. A national leader in the preservation, interpretation, and promotion of history, Glass is a public historian who pioneered influential oral history and material culture studies, an author, television presence, and international speaker on public memory and museum management. He lives in Washington, DC.

Books by Brent D. Glass

50 Great American Places

Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.

By Brent D. Glass
Foreword by David McCullough
A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and entertain—selected and described by the former director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

From Massachusetts to Florida...
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