Kenneth D. Durr

Kenneth D. Durr, who started with History Associates in 1991, is HAI's executive vice president, with an expertise in oral history and labor and business history. He oversees a wide range of projects that includes books and monographs, on-line histories and time lines, chronologies, and oral history programs. He also serves as director of the History Division.

Dr. Durr recently completed The Life of the Party: Kenneth F. Simpson and the Survival of the Republicans in 1930s New York (2009). He coauthored The Roadway Story, Never Stand Still: The History of Consolidated Freightways, Inc. and CNF Transportation Inc., 1929-2000, and International Harvester, McCormick, Navistar: Milestones in the Company that Helped Build America. He has written histories of the International Basic Economy Corporation, 1947-1985, and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (AFL-CIO, CLC), and his book Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2003. With extensive background in economic mobilization during and after World War II, he has also directed a number of litigation research projects.

Dr. Durr earned a bachelor's degree in American studies at Kent State University and holds master's and doctoral degrees in twentieth-century American political and social history from American University. He has taught at American University and is published in the academic journal Labor History.