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By Bobbie Malone and Nikki Mandell

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Thinking Like a Historian


Authors and Contributors


Photo of author Nikki Mandell, Ph.D.
Nikki Mandell
Nikki Mandell, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in history at the University of California-Davis. She is a member of the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she teaches American and global women's history, U.S. business history, U.S. social history and courses in historical methods and research. She is the author of The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930.




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Bobbie Malone
Bobbie Malone, Ph.D., is director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical Society. With a master's degree in elementary education, she taught school for 10 years before taking a doctorate in American History from Tulane University. Malone is the author of Rabbi Max Hiller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929 and co-author of the fourth-grade textbook, Wisconsin: Our State, Our Story, which is designed around the Thinking Like a Historian framework.

Nikki Mandell and Bobbie Malone served as project partners in the Teaching American History program that developed and field-tested the Thinking Like a Historian framework.
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