Bob Bain is associate professor of history education in the University of Michigan's School of Education. A veteran high school history teacher, Bain studies teaching and learning of history across a variety of instructional settings, including classrooms, museums, and with technology. His research focuses on students learning history or teachers learning to teach history. His most recent publications include "'They Thought the World Was Flat?' Principles in Teaching High School History" in How Students Learn: History, Math, and Science in the Classroom (2005) and "Rounding Up Unusual Suspects: Facing Authority Hidden the History Classroom" in Teachers College Record.

Lecture topics:

• History in Our Schools: Where Is It? Where Has It Been?
• Where Are the Kids?: Students as Historical Thinkers
• Toward a Logic of History Teaching: Teaching History as Thinking Practice
• Teachers, Judges, Therapists, and "Problem" Boys: A Story of Complementary and Competing Practices, 1880-1940

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