About the Bloggers

Keith DonohueKeith Donohue is the Director for Communications at the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Before joining the NHPRC in 2004, he wrote speeches for the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was a senior advisor on Work/Life policy at the GSA, and policy director at the Center for Arts and Culture. He has a Ph.D. in English from The Catholic University of America and has published widely as a literary critic and novelist.


Lucy BarberLucy Barber came to the National Archives from the California State Archives where she had worked on a number of projects including developing an online catalog, beginning electronic records projects, and working in reference, description, and accessions. Prior to that she worked at the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor of US History where she wrote Marching on Washington: The Creation of a National Political Tradition. The book drew on various NARA holdings. She received her doctorate from Brown University (History, 1996), and her BA from Haverford College (1986).