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David Gerwin earned a PhD in American History at Columbia University with a dissertation that examined efforts to organize across racial lines in the North in the 1960s. He earned a degree in social studies education, taught high school, and ran Supreme Court simulations for The Constitution Works.
Since 1997 he has been a faculty member at Queens College, working with beginning history teachers in Queens and across the New York City area. His books on Teaching History as Mystery help teachers find an image, object or document that, when explored with students, helps them see a big question, such as what forced labor look like in early British colonies in America or how students might investigate the parallels between American wars in Vietnam and Iraq. A mystery approach promotes student inquiry as a search for evidence and builds student understanding of the difference between facts versus evidence, and interpretations with support versus“opinions.”
A lover of live theatre (but not musicals), he enjoys living in NYC for the mix of Broadway and experimental theatre, live jazz, and the many different farmers markets and vegetarian restaurants around the city. His three daughters are now grown but he and his wife Lisa still have their dog Honey for company.
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