In July, 2015, Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced Dr. Kurt Graham’s appointment as the Director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Dr. Graham has extensive experience in the library/museum world. He directed the McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. As director, he orchestrated the digitization of some of the Library's most important archival collections, oversaw the physical renovation of the Library's public spaces, managed the Center's fellowship program, and launched a documentary editing project,The Papers of William F. Cody. He left Cody to direct the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City in 2010, where he spearheaded the development and redesign of the museum's principal history exhibit, which included several significant multi-media components.Prior to his work in the public history field, Dr. Graham was a member of the history faculty at California State University, San Bernardino, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in American political and legal/constitutional history.He has a Ph.D. in American history from Brown University and a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University in English and American studies, respectively.He is the author ofTo Bring Law Home: The Federal Judiciary in Early National Rhode Island(Northern Illinois University Press, 2010). He lives with his wife and family in Blue Springs, Missouri.

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