Jon Kukla
Jon Kukla is an American historian and author. He attended Carthage College and the University of Toronto, and in 1973 began working with the Library of Virginia, through which he published multiple works and directed historical research. He left the facility in 1990 and two years later began serving as the curator for the Historic New Orleans Collection, of which he later served as its director. Kukla has also served as the director of Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial in Charlotte County, Virginia, a position he held until 2007.
Selected bibliography
Books
- Speakers and clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643-1776
- Bill of Rights: A Lively Heritage
- The Capitol Of Virginia: A Landmark Of American Architecture
- Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619-1660
- A Guide to the Papers of Pierre Clement Laussat
- Patrick Henry: Voice of the Revolution
- A Wilderness So Immense
- Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times
- ''Mr. Jefferson's Women''