Bethany Groff Dorau is the Executive Director of the Museum of Old Newbury in Massachusetts and former Regional Manager at Historic New England. Dorau is the author of A Newburyport Marine in World War I: The Life and Legacy of Eben Bradbury, A Brief History of Old Newbury (History Press), and a primary contributor to the Defining Documents in American History Series. She has published articles in the New York Times, New England Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of American History, and Historic New England magazine. She holds an MA in History from the University of Massachusetts.