Historian, naturalist, and troubadour Dr. Kevin Dann is the author of
a dozen books of exploration on everything from the mysteries of serpentine stone to the psychological riddle of synaesthesia to the biography of one of America’s favorite renegades, Henry David Thoreau.
He has taught at Rutgers University, the University of Vermont, and the State University of New York.
Founder of the pioneering Metahistorical institution, Mermaids Are Real, Dr. Dann also writes, produces, and performs immersive street theatrical extravaganzas in New York City.
Dr. Dann is available for public speaking events and private tours.
• Agnes Giberne’s The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
• Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)
• “A Sword was Seen in the Sky”: A True and Wonderful Narrative (1763)
• A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)
• Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)
• Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch (1596–1633)
• A Hall of Mirrors: Cabala, Spiegel Der Kunst Und Natur, In Alchymia
• Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion (1889)
• Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition)
• A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)
• Hieroglyphics of a Rope-Dancer: The Book of Fate (1822)
• Dr. Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon
• Why Did Everyone in the 19th Century Think They Could Talk to the Dead?