Sam Wineburg

Sam Wineburg
Professor Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Education

Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus, and, by courtesy, of History & American Studies at Stanford University. Educated at Brown University and Berkeley, he holds a doctorate in Psychological Studies in Education from Stanford and an honorary doctorate from Sweden’s Umeå University. In 2004, Wineburg founded the Stanford History Education Group (sheg.stanford.edu), a curriculum development effort that has grown into one of the largest providers of free curriculum in the social studies, with 12 million downloads of its curriculum and assessments. Since 2016 his research has focused on how people judge the credibility of information on the Internet— research that has been reported in Time Magazine, the BBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, PBS, and translated into dozens of languages. In 2021, UNESCO honored him with its International Media Literacy Award.
Wineburg’s first book, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past won the Frederic W. Ness Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for work that makes the most important contribution to the “improvement of Liberal Education and understanding the Liberal Arts.” His latest book, A Citizen’s Guide to the Internet, with co-author Mike Caulfield, is slated to appear in December 2022.

Professor Wineburg will be in discussion with Bob Bain.

Bob Bain is Interim Chair, Secondary Educator Preparation Program; Associate Professor, School of Education; and Associate Professor, Department of History at University of Michigan.

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