David W. Jackson

David W. Jackson was graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Historic Preservation / Archives Studies from Southeast Missouri State University in 1993. He is director of The Orderly Pack Rat, an independent historical research and consulting firm and publishing house he founded in 1996.

Jacksons’s 20+year professional career included Archives and Education Director for the Jackson County (Mo.) Historical Society; and, as an archivist for Unity School of Christianity, Unity Village, Missouri.

In 2009, he co-founded the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA) (glama.us).

Jackson is author of numerous newspaper columns, and periodical articles. Since 2000, Jackson has helped to add to local history bookshelves--on his own or in concert with others--more than 40 book titles.

Through The Orderly Pack Rat (orderlypackrat.com) he continues to consult, research, write, publish, and present on local history/heritage/historic preservation matters.