Richard Rabi­nowitz, a not­ed his­to­ri­an and muse­um cura­tor, is the pres­i­dent of Amer­i­can His­to­ry Work­shop. For decades, he has been instru­men­tal in devel­op­ing new muse­ums and cre­at­ing live­ly exhi­bi­tions across the nation, includ­ing the Low­er East Side Ten­e­ment Muse­um, the Birm­ing­ham Civ­il Rights Insti­tute, the Nation­al Under­ground Rail­road Free­dom Cen­ter, and the New-York His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety. He is the author of The Spir­i­tu­al Self in Every­day Life: The Trans­for­ma­tion of Per­son­al Reli­gious Expe­ri­ence in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry New Eng­land and Curat­ing Amer­i­ca: Jour­neys through Sto­ryscapes of the Amer­i­can Past. Among his many hon­ors are a Guggen­heim Fel­low­ship and the Amer­i­can His­tor­i­cal Association’s Her­bert Feis Award for dis­tin­guished con­tri­bu­tions to pub­lic history.