Jon Kukla is an American historian and author. He attended Carthage College and the University of Toronto, and in 1973 began working with the Library of Virginia, through which he published multiple works and directed historical research. He left the facility in 1990 and two years later began serving as the curator for the Historic New Orleans Collection, of which he later served as its director. Kukla has also served as the director of Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial in Charlotte County, Virginia, a position he held until 2007.[2]
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| Notable work | A Wilderness So Immense
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- Speakers and clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643-1776 (1981, Library of Virginia)[3]
- Bill of Rights: A Lively Heritage (1987, Library of Virginia, editor)
- The Capitol Of Virginia: A Landmark Of American Architecture (1989, Library of Virginia, contributor)
- Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619-1660 (1989, Taylor & Francis)
- A Guide to the Papers of Pierre Clement Laussat (1993, The Historic New Orleans Collection, author and editor)
- Patrick Henry: Voice of the Revolution (2002, PowerPlus Books)
- A Wilderness So Immense (2003, Alfred A. Knopf)[4][5][6][7][8]
- Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (2005)
- Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times (2015, University of Georgia Press, contributor)
- Mr. Jefferson's Women (2009, Alfred A. Knopf)[9][10][11][12]
Kukla, Jon. "Biography". JonKukla.com. Jon Kukla (via Wayback Machine). Archived from the original on 20 July 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Greene, Jack P. (2003). "Reviewed Work: Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643-1776 by Jon Kukla". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 90 (3). JSTOR 4248572. Bernstein, R. B. (2003), "Reviewed Works: A Wilderness so Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America by Jon Kukla; Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase by Roger G. Kennedy", The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, JSTOR 4250143 Tise, Larry E. (2009-02-01). "Jon Kukla. Mr. Jefferson's Women. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. Pp. xiii, 279. $26.95". The American Historical Review. 114 (1): 164–165. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.1.164. ISSN 0002-8762.
