Sam Wineburg, the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and History at Stanford University and the brother of UNCG professor Bob Wineburg, will deliver a lecture – “A History with no Hands: Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States’ and the Development of Popular Historical Consciousness” – at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in the School of Education Building, Room 120.

During the past 15 years, Sam Wineburg’s work has spanned a wide terrain, from how adolescents and professional historians interpret primary sources to issues of teacher assessment and teacher community in the workplace. He “has not merely contributed to our understanding of how history is created, taught and learned; he has nearly single-handedly forged a distinctive field of research and a new educational literature,” according to Lee Shulman, past president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

His book “Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts” (2001) won the 2002 Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for the book “that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education.” He also is the executive producer of the new Department of Education National Clearinghouse for History Education, a collaboration between George Mason University, Stanford University and the American Historical Association.

His lecture is sponsored by the Department of History.

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