Steven Lee Carson

Steven Lee Carson has delivered addresses in The White House, The Kremlin, The U.S. Capitol, The Lincoln Memorial, Ford's Theater, The Smithsonian Institution, The National Archives, The Library of Congress, The Belfast, Northern Ireland Parliament, over the Voice of America and throughout the United States. Most of the famous personalities covered in his speeches include the celebrities he has dealt with at The White House or as a member of The National Press Club. His informative and entertaining speeches include Presidential Children: Suicide, Murder, Homosexuality- and the Presidency, Ten Modern Points of Leadership in the Lives of Lincoln, Lee and Jefferson Davis, Presidential Disability: After Assassination or Illness When Cabinets and a First Lady Ruled, From The White House To the Kremlin: Tales of a Washington Life, Washington Folklore (Spies and Ghosts), and Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis. Steven has also spoken on the eldest son of Abraham Lincoln, Robert Todd Lincoln: Sole Witness to Three Presidential Assassinations. Steven also speaks on what he has written about for 15 years - fine arts investment. His speech is entitled The Fun and Profit in Autograph and Manuscript Collecting: Dealing with Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Salvador Dali, and Others.

Steven designs site-specific tours of historical Washington, D.C., from Lafayette Park to Arlington National Cemetery. He can also blend humor and history as exemplified in his speech, Famous and Curious Cemeteries of Washington.

Steven has a long history as a raconteur about the stars and movers and shakers of our time on the world stage that he has met. In his speeches, intimate glimpses are presented of leaders from Kings and Queens, to spiritual leaders to entertainers to presidents, prime ministers and dictators. From perplexing the Dali Lama to being threatened by Richard Nixon to running with Laura Bush and her Secret Service detail, Steven has been privy to some public and private moments. Whether reporting on an aspect of a Kennedy family member in John F. Kennedy's funeral cortege, to an unguarded moment at a reception with an exhausted, controversial late U.S. Supreme Justice, to a run-in with wild, madcap Washington socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Steven will enlighten and entertain.

Steven Carson is currently a Presidential Historian at the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C and has served as well at the Lincoln Cottage Summer White House. In addition to having been Chairman of the White House Conference on Presidential Children, Steven has now become the Chairman of the National Press Club Conference on Covering  White House Families. Steven is also current or past President of the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia, a member of the Board of Trustees of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Abraham Lincoln Institute, the Lincoln Forum and the Lincoln Group of Illinois. For 15 years, Steven was the editor and sole writer for the international quarterly, The Manuscript Society News.

Steven Carson received the Ford Foundation Fellowship from New York University and the Charles Carroll Fulton Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.