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Mr. Burns is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A., 1974) and Columbia University (M.S., 1978). Before becoming an educator, he worked as an on-air reporter and documentary producer for many years at television stations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Rochester, New York. His reports have appeared nationally on PBS and CNN. Mr. Burns is a past winner of the New York State Bar Association's Media Award for journalistic contributions to the administration of justice. Mr. Burns developed the Fasttrack American History Project and the Fasttrack Civics Project as Internet sites for teachers and students. He is the author of Fasttrack to America's Past, Fasttrack Civics, and Frameworks for America's Past, which are widely used study guides for U.S. history and Civics. |
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Acknowledgments:
I would
like to thank first the many
teachers
and other
colleagues whose encouragement and suggestions helped make Fasttrack
to America's Past a success. A special thanks goes to
Mike
Wildasin
and other social studies specialists throughout the country for their
advice
and assistance in moving the project forward. I am also grateful
for the unfailing support shown by my wife Jeanne and our children
during
the many years of research, writing, and development the work required.
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David Burns is
a native
of Newport
News,
Virginia, and
is a Social Studies teacher (retired now!) and writer in Springfield,
Virginia. As a 28 year classroom veteran at the high school
and middle school levels in Fairfax County, he has taught American
history, Government, Journalism, and Civics.