Deborah Morse-Kahn

Deborah Morse-Kahn is a public historian, author and photojournalist who advises, researches and writes extensively on people and place in the United States, and on specialized topics in world events and cultures. She holds the Masters degree in Public History, and brings the skills of historiography, historic preservation, field archaeology, sociology, photojournalism, exhibit design and archival organization into her work. Special areas of research, program presentation and college course instruction have included American religious communities (the Amish and other Plain Peoples), sociology of war (American Civil War, WWI and WWII), Holocaust studies, mediaeval plague studies, foundations of world faiths, and the status of women in past and present centuries. Deborah writes for a broad range of clients, from small non-profit organizations to federal agencies. Her professional investment in historic documentation, historic preservation and sociology of community earned her appointment to the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission on which she served from 2008-2010. Deborah organized and convened a statewide conference on Libraries & the Patriot Act at the University of Minnesota in 2005 with the financial support of the Minnesota Library Association and the participation of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Several of her books written over the past two decades have earned nomination for, or received, state book awards. Ms. Morse-Kahn lived and worked on the historic North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota from 2011-2018, during which time she was diagnosed and treated over four years for Stage IV Breast Cancer and paying forward many years of outstanding care and support with counseling and referrals for others coming behind her on the same difficult path. She has returned to her work of writing and consulting, presenting at symposia and conferences on a range of topics in Public History for historical organizations, regional health commissions, and state and federal agencies, with numerous national book titles and regional history project proposals in preparation. She currently resides in North Oaks in the north metro area of the Twin Cities.