Clifford Muse

Clifford L. Muse, Jr. (born April 27, 1944, in Highstown, New Jersey) is an African American historian and archivist. He is currently Howard University's archivist and associate director at the Moorland–Spingarn Research Center. He is most well known for his involvement in the diversity issues of the archive profession as well as his research and writings on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Frederick Douglass.

Career Dr. Muse was born in Highstown, New Jersey, where he also attended high school. He graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, and Howard University.

Affiliations He is a member of many organizations, including the American Historical Association (AHA), Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), and the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (ASALH).

He has written numerous articles and book reviews in many publications. He is most well known for his articles on Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. He has also written heavily on the history of Howard University and his articles, "Howard University and U.S. Foreign Affairs During the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1945" and "Howard University and the Federal Government During the Presidential Administrations of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1945" are heavily cited by historians and academics.

In 1995, he co-authored Howard in Retrospect: Images of the Capstone, a history of Howard University, with Thomas Battle.