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Julie Peters is the associate director of the Teaching of History program. She teaches History 420, a methods course for teaching the social sciences, and History 475/476, the educational practicum course for student teachers. She is the advisor for undergraduate and M.Ed. teaching of history students and an active participant in a number of grants and committees dedicated to improving teaching in the secondary schools. A contributing editor to the Teacher's Curriculum Institute's History Alive ! The United States, she is currently writing ancillary materials for an upcoming textbook, World Geography, to be published by General Learning Communications.