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December 21, 2010


James Percoco

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James Percoco James A. Percoco has taught at West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia since 1980. The recipient of numerous education awards, Percoco was selected for the first USA TODAY All-USA Teacher Team in 1998 and named Outstanding Social Studies Teacher of the Year in 1993 at the Walt Disney Company American Teacher Awards.

His first book, A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History (1998) received the 2000 James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association. From 1998-2004, Percoco served on the Board of Trustees for the National Council for History Education. An advocate for promoting good history education Percoco has served as an educational consultant for the National Archives and Records Administration, where he received the Archivist’s Award of Achievement in 1993, the National Gallery of Art, the National Park Service, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

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"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. "

Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
January 27, 1838

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For many years, Mike Maione was a member of, and friend to, The Lincoln Group.  But more than that, Mike Maione was a Lincoln scholar.  It is fair to say that Abraham Lincoln was his passion.  He studied what was known about Lincoln, researched what was not know about Lincoln, and learned what he could from Lincoln.  Mike also shared his encyclopedic knowledge about Lincoln with any and all who were interested, and with some who were not so interested, but who could not resist the shear force of Mike's exuberance.

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