Lendol Calder is associate professor of history at Augustana College. Since 1999, he has been working with others to invent and share new models for history teaching at the postsecondary level. A popular presenter and workshop leader, he has consulted for national initiatives such as the Teaching American History Grant Program, the Quality in Undergraduate Education Project, and the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; he currently represents the OAH on the board of the National Council on History Education. His Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (1999) was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "deliciously seditious" for the ways it inverted common assumptions about the meaning of credit in American life.

Lecture topics:

• The Problem with Coverage: Why History Teachers Need a Signature Pedagogy
• "For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die": Lessons from Mt. Hood on What Makes a Good History Teacher
  
• The Usurer's Grip: Myths and Stories to Make Sense of Consumer Credit

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