Paul Glenshaw has cultivated a career in storytelling through his work as lecturer, drawing instructor, documentary filmmaker, and artist. Paul specializes in French-American stories, and studies art history and military history in tandem, with particular emphasis on 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century subjects. He has traveled and filmed across northern France, including Normandy, for his documentary The Lafayette Escadrille, which is streaming on the PBS Passport platform. His popular, long-running lecture series Art+History, initially created for the Smithsonian Associates, has been presented around the country in person and online. They include presentations on masterworks like The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault and Picasso’s Guernica have led him into French maritime history on the Atlantic coast and the spiritual heart of the Basque region of northern Spain.

Paul is an expert in the history of early aviation and was a longtime contributor to Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine. His articles have appeared diverse publications, from Racquet magazine to the Folger Library’s Shakespeare and Beyond blog. A lifetime resident of the Washington, D.C. area, Paul is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.