About the Personal History Editor

I have been helping write memories for more than twenty years. My first exposure to the process was soliciting, transcribing, and verifying oral histories during my years as staff researcher and publications director for the Montgomery County Historical Society in Dayton, Ohio. In 1990, I became even more involved with the craft when I moved south and became a general editor with the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, an institution that placed utmost importance on the stories of “everyday folk.” Following a promotion there, I refined my skills as project editor, text editor, and design editor of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine, a history magazine that researched, “translated,” and relayed the stories of events, places, and people for the schoolchildren of North Carolina.  

Over the years, some of the projects I have helped guide have been published as books, magazine articles, and even museum labels. Others have led to the creation of study guides for visitors at museums and historic sites as well as lesson plans, audiovisual scripts, classroom discussion guides, and teaching activities for classrooms.

For more information, I invite you to review the professional vita and autobiographical sketch that appears on my primary Web site or my online resume, at www.StephenEvans.com. I also have a profile on the social networking site LinkedIn, if you just can’t get enough!

If you are interested in gaining information about related services that I do not provide, I refer you to the Association of Personal Historians—I am a proud member and supporter of APH and cannot brag enough about the members I have worked with over the years. They'll take good care of you.