The class will have a relaxed conversational approach with lots of discussion and question/answer time.

Cliff Dickinson, Middle School History teacher, came to STC in 1984. A graduate of Edinboro University in Pennsylvania where he also received his M.A. in History, he received a B.A. in Education from Virginia Commonwealth University. His graduate work was in Civil War history and as part of his summer coursework, he traveled to every major battlefield in the country with a select group of graduate students.

 

Mr. Dickinson spent fifteen summers as an interpreter and ranger with the National Park Service and completed three historical landscape studies of Richmond area battlefields for NPS. For nine summers, Mr. Dickinson was employed by the Museum of the Confederacy, cataloging its extensive map collection and numerous manuscript collections. He has also served as a consultant for preservation organizations and environmental engineering firms on Civil War engineering and fortifications.  

In 2002, Mr. Dickinson received the Carl J. Koenig Award for Faculty Excellence and currently holds the Thomas R. Towers History Chair.