“We are very excited to have Dr. Havers joining our team at this critical juncture in history. His proven leadership ability, along with his extensive background in both academic and public history make him an ideal person to lead the museum,” said Dan Stoddard, ACWM board chairman, in a statement.
Christy Coleman, former CEO of the ACWM, left her role last year to take a job as executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
Coleman helped open the new museum, which aims to tell a more complete story of the Civil War from all sides: Union and Confederate, soldiers and civilians, women and children, enslaved and free African Americans.
In 2018, Time magazine named Coleman one of “31 People Changing the South.”
According to the article, Coleman was selected because “few subjects are as thorny as the history and meaning of the Civil War. But as CEO of the American Civil War Museum … Christy Coleman has proved unafraid to wade into the middle of the conversation. As an African-American woman, her very presence in the field is noteworthy, and Coleman has found herself at the museum’s helm during a moment of national reckoning on its subject.”
The ACWM welcomes visitors at two sites in Richmond, Historic Tredegar and The White House of the Confederacy; as well as at the ACWM in Appomattox.
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