Participant Info
- First Name
- Jenny
- Last Name
- Thompson
- Country
- United States
- State
- IL Illinois
- jennythompson44@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Evanston History Center
- Website URL
- jennythompson.org
- Keywords
- 20th and 21st-Century American History, World War I and postwar period, History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960s Student Activism, Higher Education History, Ethnography and Oral History, and Living History and War Reenacting.
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Jenny Thompson’s work focuses on 20th and 21st-century American history. She works as the Director of Education for the Evanston History Center and as a consultant for a variety of public and social justice history projects.
Jenny has BA from San Francisco State University, an MA in American Studies from the George Washington University and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland.
Jenny’s books include, The Takeover, 1968 (2019); War Games: Inside the World of 20th Century War Reenactors (2004, 2010); My Hut: A Memoir of a YMCA Volunteer in World War One, (editor, 2006); and A Journal of the Great War (editor, 2016). Her essays and articles have appeared in anthologies and journals, including the New York Times.
- Recent Publications
The Takeover 1968: Student Protest, Campus Politics, and Black Student Activism At Northwestern University. Evanston History Center Press, 2019.
Editor, A Journal of the Great War by Charles Gates Dawes, first published in 1921. Evanston History Center Press, 2016.
Essay, “War Recreated,” in Zones of Control: Perspectives on War Gaming. Boston: MIT Press, 2016.
War Games: Inside the World of 20th-Century War Reenactors. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004, 2010.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Public History, Race, World War I
