Bill bigelow biography

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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Bill Bigelow

Character actor Bill Bigelow (August 18, 1938 – May 18, 2008)^[1] co-wrote the Season 3 episode "Last Dance Before An Execution" with series creator Donald P. Bellisario and Deborah Pratt.

Life and career[]

At age 16, Bigelow gained valuable experience working in his first job in radio, at WTJN in his hometown Jamestown, NY, on a high school news program.^[2]

Bill served in the U.S. Navy, ulti-mately landing in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was a Naval Lieutenant Public Affairs Officer for COMSERVPAC, (Commander and Service Forces Pacific Ocean). His Navy career took him to London, before he re-turned to the states in 1966 to teach broadcasting and journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison for the Defense International School in Indianapolis, IN. His students included future broadcasters and Vietnam veterans such

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