Sam Wineburg is the Margaret Jacks professor of education and of history (by courtesy). He is the founder and executive director of the Stanford History Education Group and Stanford's Ph.D. program in History Education. He also oversees the M.A. program for future history teachers. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the New Yorker, and on NPR and C-SPAN. In 2007, he was awarded the American Historical Association's William Gilbert Prize for distinguished scholarship on the teaching of history and was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.