Tim Bailey is currently the director of curriculum development and instructional design at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He is the developer of the Hamilton Education Program as well as the professional development programs Teaching Literacy through History and Teaching Civics through History. In addition, he authored the book series Easy Simulations for Scholastic Publishing. Prior to the Institute, he was a US history teacher at Northwest Middle School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in his 20+ years in the classroom he has taught at all levels from elementary to college. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Utah. His distinctions include Utah State Teacher of the Year 2001, National History Teacher of the Year 2009, and University of Utah Classroom Teacher of the Year 2010.

Summer Seminar Scholar of the Week: 

Dr. Serena Zabin

Serena Zabin is the Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. Professor of History and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College. She is the author of The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin, 2020), Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), and The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the Proceedings (2004). She is also the co-designer of “Witness to the Revolution,” a video game about the Boston Massacre. She teaches courses on early American history, the American Revolution, and American legal history, and is the lead author of the NEH/National History Day Curriculum Guide, “Building a More Perfect Union” (2021).