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Treasure Troves from the Past

A visit with Steven Watts, Professor, History

Published: - Topics: Playboy Hugh_Hefner Henry_Ford Walt_Disney biography
Topics: history teaching

While many of his colleagues prefer to teach more specialized courses in their specific areas of research, this 1995 winner of the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching award prefers freshman-level courses such as “Survey of American History.” Watts also teaches a series of upper-division classes in American culture. Perhaps the most “fun” course he offers is, not unexpectedly, on Walt Disney.