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30+ years in the presidential history & museum/library business!

ABOUT HISTORIAN ALAN LOWE

  • Archivist – Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives, Los Angeles and Simi Valley, CA – 1989-1992
  • Director of Operations – Office of Presidential Libraries, National Archives, Washington, D.C., and College Park, MD – 1992-2003
  • Acting Director – Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives, Hyde Park, NY – 1998-1999
  • Executive Director – Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee – 2003-2009
  • Director – George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum – Dallas, TX – 2009-2016
  • Executive Director – Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL – 2016-2019
  • Podcast Co-Host/Chief Historian - American POTUS, American SCOTUS
  • Executive Director – American Museum of Science and Energy, and The K-25 History Center, Oak Ridge, TN – 2019-present

Other Positions, Appointments, and Awards

  • Survey Participant - C-Span Presidential Historian Survey - 2021
  • President – William Blount Mansion Association – 2007-2008
  • President – Association of Centers for the Study of Congress – 2008-2009
  • Majority Leader’s Appointee – Advisory Committee on the Records of Congress – 2003-2006
  • Commissioner – Illinois Bicentennial Commission 
  • Trustee – Lincoln Academy
  • Hall of Fame - University of Kentucky Alumni, 2021
  • Board member – William Blount Mansion Association; Association of Centers for the Study of Congress; WUOT; East Tennessee Economic Council; SMU Libraries; Central Illinois Food Bank; Illinois Association of Museums; Illinois Humanities; Childhelp Tennessee.
  • Advisory Committee member – University of Kentucky Department of History; University of Kentucky Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues; University of Tennessee Honors Program; Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center; SMU Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility;  Organization Committee on NARA’s Transformation Launch Team.
  • Ad Hoc Committee member – Downtown Oak Ridge Development
  • Graduate - Leadership Knoxville 2007
  • Member - Leadership Knoxville Curriculum Committee 2007-2009
  • Leadership Oak Ridge – class of 2022
  • East Tennessee Regional Leadership Association class of 2023
  • Adjunct faculty – SMU Cultural Institute in Taos, New Mexico; Brookhaven College (Dallas Community College System)
  • Public Service Award by Federal Executive Board – 2014
  • US Army War College Graduate, 53rd Annual National Security Seminar – 2007
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Robert Lunde Award from Phi Alpha Theta
  • Consultant work for Senate Majority Leader William Frist; Senator Robert Corker; Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library; National Museum of American Presidents; University of South Carolina.
  • BA – University of Kentucky – 1986 – History with minor in Political Science
  • MA – University of Kentucky – 1988 - History

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