Ellen Tucker spent sixteen years as a writer and editor for Teaching American History publications. During this time, she interviewed teachers across the nation who participate in TAH programs, sometimes visiting their classrooms, to learn how they apply what they learned to the education of secondary school students. She shared stories about their work at the “Meet Our Teacher Partners” page at TeachingAmericanHistory.org and on the TAH blog.  She also provided editorial assistance to the Core Documents Collection, contributed historical essays and faculty interviews to the TAH blog, wrote content for a TAH-related website, ReligioninAmerica.org, and designed the exhibit “Slavery and Religion” for the TAH Digital Atlas.

Ellen holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate School. Before working for TAH, she taught literature and composition at Northeastern University and Monterey Peninsula College and served as Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the National University of Côte d’Ivoire in Abidjan (West Africa).

With David Tucker, Ellen is completing a book-length study, Achieving Common Ground: Civic Education and the Preservation of Self-Government. The book documents the work of American history and government teachers as they help secondary school students understand recurrent debates in our nation’s history and how self-government can persist in spite of these disagreements.