Sam Wineburg

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• SOURCE: VOA News
  11-26-18
  

  Are US History Textbooks Obsolete?

  Stanford’s Sam Wineburg suggests that with the Internet there’s no reason for students to lug around big textbooks anymore.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-16-18
  

  Stanford’s Sam Wineburg says it’s time for historians to admit that they embraced a $50 million federal boondoggle

  by Sam Wineburg

  It was Robert Byrd’s history project and it didn’t work out as planned.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  4-3-18
  

  Stanford’s Sam Wineburg takes historians to task for failing to measure what their students are learning

  by Sam Wineburg and Joel Breakstone and Mark Smith

  Shocking findings suggest even juniors and seniors who major in history don’t know how to put events into historical perspective.

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• SOURCE: Stanford
  10-24-17
  

  Study: Historians aren’t very good at detecting fake news

  Stanford’s Sam Wineburg reports that historians mistakenly fail to cross-check sources.

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• SOURCE: American Association for State and Local History
  8-31-15
  

  Sam Wineburg praised for his courage and insights

  by John Dichtl

  He’s celebrated for teaching us that thinking historically is "an unnatural act."

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• Zinn and Daniels Both Guilty of Sacrificing Nuance to Politics

  by Sam Wineburg

  Emails recently obtained by the Associated Press have revealed that Indiana's former Republican governor, Mitch Daniels, now president of Purdue University, tried to ban Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States from Indiana schools. His attempt, though perhaps clumsy, wasn't all that surprising.If history tends to be written by the victors, Zinn's alternative take on America's past sought to give voice to the vanquished, telling the story of U.S. history from the perspective of slaves, Indians, laborers and women. The book brought the Boston University historian (who died in 2010) acclaim from many on the American left. But conservatives have had him in their sights for years.

• SOURCE: Lafayette Journal-Courier
  7-29-13
  

  Sam Wineburg: Mitch, Here's Where We Split Ways on Howard Zinn

  Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and History at Stanford University and the author of Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past. Dear Mitch, I hope you don’t mind the informality. I’ve felt like we share something in common ever since learning that you not only read my article about Howard Zinn but quoted from it approvingly in your press release.

• SOURCE: Indianapolis Star
  7-27-13
  

  Sam Wineburg: “How could I possibly agree that ‘banning Zinn’ makes sense when I assign him in my own classes?”

  ...[Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels] upset Stanford University professor Sam Wineburg by invoking Wineburg’s criticisms of Zinn to defend his own stance. Wineburg objected to Daniels using his work to rationalize a ban on the textbook.“This is not about Zinn, per se,” Wineburg told the Star. “This is about whether in an open democratic society we should be exposed — whether you’re in ninth grade or seventh grade or a freshman at Purdue — whether you should be exposed to views that challenge your own cherished view.”In a tweet directed at Daniels, Wineburg wrote: “How could I possibly agree that ‘banning Zinn’ makes sense when I assign him in my own classes?”...