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Sam Wineburg
Founder of the Stanford History Education Group
Biography
Sam Wineburg is an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University. Having received an education from Brown, Berkeley, an honorary degree from Sweden's Umeå University, and holds a doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education from Stanford.
Stanford History Education Group
- In 2002, Wineburg founded the Stanford History Education Group (inquirygroup.org), whose curriculum and assessments have been downloaded over 16 million times, making it one of the largest providers of free curriculum in the world.
Quick Facts
Role
Emeritus Professor, Stanford University
Department
American Studies
Institute
Stanford History Education Group
Noted For
Historical Thinking, Web Credibility, Digital Literacy
Public History
Educator
“Historical thinking is not a natural process. It goes against the grain of how we ordinarily think.”
— Sam Wineburg
Major Works
Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (2023). Co-authored with Mike Caulfield. \n\n Why we need a new approach to teaching digital literacy (2018). \n\n 35+ other publications as well as hundreds of published articles.
Legacy
“Historical thinking is not a natural process.”
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