historian, cultural organization administrator ; professor of history, East Carolina University; formerly Director of the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC, 1974-1981; Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA, 1981-1987; Executive Director, American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, TN, 1987-1989; and Executive Director of the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, 1989-1997