Susan Cooke Soderberg Email & Phone Number

Susan Cooke Soderberg is a Historian with a Masters degree in American Studies from George Washington University and a BA in Art History from the College of William and Mary. A passionate seeker of truth about the past, Susan has been active for more than 40 years writing, lecturing, testifying and leading tours of historic sites to bring history to the public in ways they can understand. While working as a Public Historian with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission she created the Underground Railroad Experience Trail, trained docents to interpret the trail as well as for a Cabin that once housed enslaved people, wrote historic markers and interpretive panels, designed exhibits and successfully nominated the Josiah Henson historic site and the William Chaplin Arrest site to the National Underground Railroad National Network to Freedom. She has written several books on state and local history, as well as numerous scholarly articles, and was a researcher and consultant for the Emmy Award winning documentary, “Life in a War Zone: Montgomery County in the Civil War,” produced by Heritage Montgomery. In July of 2022 she was the keynote speaker for the ceremony changing of the name of the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site” in Ontario, Canada to “The Josiah Henson Museum of African Canadian History.” Her new book, “My Name is Not Tom:” the Life of Reverend Josiah Henson, will be published by Georgetown University Press in April, 2025.