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Fritz Fischer
Fritz Fischer is Professor History and Director of History Education at the University of Northern Colorado. He teaches courses in American History and helps run the teacher preparation program for future secondary school history teachers. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University, taught for five years in middle/secondary schools and then earned his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1994. His research specialties are 20th century American cultural and diplomatic history (his book Making Them Like Us: Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s was published in 1998) and history education. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council for History Education and has led more than a dozen institutes for history teachers throughout the nation in the past five years.