James A. Percoco was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• James A. Percoco is a nationally recognized and award-winning history teacher and has taught at West Springfield High School in Springfield, Va., since 1980. He is also currently History-Educator-in-Residence at American University in Washington, D.C.



• His first book for a general audience, Summers With Lincoln, chronicles four summers in which Percoco and a band of teenage historians visited some of the 200 statutes erected in Lincoln’s memory in anticipation of the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth in 2009.



• In addition to Summers With Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments, Percoco is the author of numerous articles and two other books: Divided We Stand: Teaching About Conflict in U.S. History and A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History, which won the James Harvey Robinson Prize of the American Historical Association.

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