318 Information Nation: 250 Years of American Innovation in Information Technology
History | Registration opens 8/4/26 9:00 AM EDT
Based on the Innovators’ Gallery special exhibit, “Information Nation,” at the American Museum of Science and Energy, this course will examine the amazing history of American innovations in information technology. From the telegraph, telephone and television, to the typewriter and the computer, America has led the world to find new and better ways to create, disseminate, and preserve information. This course will take an interactive look at those innovations in the context of this special semi-quincentennial exhibit at AMSE.
Alan Lowe
Alan Lowe obtained his BA and MA in history from the University of Kentucky. He began his career at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as an archivist. He has worked for the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. He served as the executive director of the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee from 2003 to 2009. From 2009-16, Lowe served as founding director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. In 2016, Lowe was appointed as executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and
Museum, a position he held until 2019 when he returned to Tennessee and became the director of the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge.