Meet the Panelists

  • Dustin McLochlin, PhD

    HISTORIAN

    Dustin McLochlin is the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums historian. He authors a series of essays on rbhayes.org that trace the evolution of Hayes's thoughts on slavery, race, and Reconstruction. He received his PhD in Policy History from Bowling Green State University.

  • Gregory Downs, PhD

    PROFESSOR

    Greg Downs is Professor of History at UC Davis and author of three books about Reconstruction and the Civil War Era. With Kate Masur he co-wrote the National Park Service’s first theme study of Reconstruction and helped historians’ efforts to lobby for the creation of the first National Park devoted to Reconstruction at Beaufort SC. With Masur he co edits the Journal of the Civil War Era.

  • Robin von Seldeneck

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Robin von Seldeneck is the President and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum. Robin received her undergraduate degree from Mary Baldwin College where she double majored in History and Political Science; and her Masters in Public Administration from James Madison University.

 

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Resource Pages

 

  • For many, it might not be readily apparent why a discussion on this otherwise “forgotten” president’s connection to this topic is needed. Hayes didn’t end slavery like Lincoln, nor did he sign extensive civil rights legislation like Lyndon Johnson. Yet, Hayes is still remembered in African American history for doing something much more ominous, ending Reconstruction.

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  • The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is America’s first presidential library and the forerunner for the federal presidential library system. HPLM is located at President Hayes’ 25-acre wooded estate, called Spiegel Grove. A non-profit entity, it receives the majority of its funding through the Rutherford B. Hayes–Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation. The State of Ohio also provides an annual appropriation administered through the Ohio History Connection (formerly the Ohio Historical Society). NOTE : HPLM receives no federal funds and is not part of the federal system of presidential sites.

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  • Take a look at the virtual education content that the Hayes Library and Museum have to offer.

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