York / San Francisco / Philadelphia / Abbeville / Reading / Garden City / Rockville / New York / Washington / DC / Cambridge / Nashville / Monticello / Montgomery / /
Company
Penguin Press / Teachers College Press / Wisconsin Historical Society Press / Riverbed Press / Oxford University Press / Hillenbrand / Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation / Osiris Group Inc. / Macmillan Publishing Co. / Houghton Mifflin Co. / Columbia University Press / Temple University Press / Engaging Places LLC / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / /
Event
Judicial Event / Person Travel / /
Facility
Maine State Library / Washington State Museum / Stanford University / George Mason University / Monticello / University of Maryland / /
IndustryTerm
electronic media / end products / basic educational network / food / treatment of mental illness / historic site / /
Movie
Mississippi / /
MusicGroup
Immortal / /
Organization
Columbia University / University of Maryland / Teachers College / San Francisco Travel Association / Alabama Becoming Ordinary / Washington State Historical Society / State University / U. S. Supreme Court / George Mason University / Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media / Oxford University / Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters / Travel Industry Association / Harvard Kennedy School / Wisconsin Historical Society / Temple University / National Trust for Historic Preservation / National Park Service / Stanford University / School of Education / Women’s Political Council / National Endowment for the Arts / /
Person
Jo Ann Robinson / Nikki Mandell / Annette Gordon-Reed / James Gardner / Tom Bradshaw / Ron Chernow / Abraham Lincoln / Chauncey Monte-Sano / Nancy Duarte / Walter Isaacson / Henrietta Lacks / George Washington / Jon Meacham / Charles White / Danielle McGuire / Erik Larson / Anna Bird / Caren B. Cooper / Max A. van Balgooy / Sam Wineburg / Karen Freeman / Jill Lepore / Bonnie Nichols / Doris Kearns Goodwin / Alex Haley / Isabel Wilkerson / David A. Gadsby / Lorraine McConaghy / Thomas Jefferson / Recy Taylor / E. D. Nixon / Rebecca Skloot / D. Nixon / Patrick Spenner / David McCullough / Rollie Adams / David Thelen / Frieda FrommReichmann / Robert C. Chidester / Kathleen Hunter / Rosa Parks / Laura Hillenbrand / Mary Carroll Moore / Vivian Simpson / Carol Kammen / Gertrude Perkins / Barbara Tuchman / Richard Moe / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich / David Hackett Fisher / Natasha Trethewey / Martha Ballard / Bobbie Malone / Daisy Martin / Robert D. Putnam / /
Position
President / detective / head / historian / Tackle / professor / midwife / experienced chef / Educational psychologist / Political scientist / mundane midwife / purely objective historian / Staff historian / president of the Alabama / poet / Native Guard / teacher / leader / /
Product
Franklin / /
ProvinceOrState
Alabama / New York / Mississippi / California / New Jersey / Maryland / /
Becoming Ordinary Turning Points that Transform History Organizations By Max A. van Balgooy, President, Engaging Places, LLC A version of this article was first published as, “Turning Points: Ordinary People, Extraordi