Bill Bigelow is a teacher and writer, whose work focuses on history and climate change. Bigelow earned his bachelor’s degree from Ohio’s Antioch College, and his Master’s degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon before going into teaching. He has made it his mission to change how history is taught and how students engage historical material while teaching more honestly about the historical realities that shape the United States. 

Bigelow has written and co-edited a wide range of curricula, including, Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice (Volumes 1 and 2); Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years and Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World. He also has written an essay for Robert Shetterly’s book, Portraits of Earth Justice (New Village Press, 2022).

Now a retired social studies teacher, Bigelow is the Curriculum Editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and the Co-Director of the Zinn Education Project.

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