Please note: this event will be held at the Officer's Club at Fort McNair
December 21, 2010
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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.
Topic: Summers with Lincoln.
