About Mike Dixon
I am a historian and writer whose research and teaching focus on social history and community studies. For over four decades, I have worked to encourage public interest and participation in the preservation of the past while creating understanding between earlier eras and the present. Addressing my areas of scholarship, I have appeared on the Today Show, Maryland Public Television, the BBC, National Geographic Channel, and National Public Radio shows.
I enjoy seeking out stories that create a distinctive sense of place. Along the way, I find rich, deep, and varied narratives about the past in our fascinating towns and communities.
My lectures and writings are based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, and oral history interviews. I draw on this applied knowledge of community, social, and family history in talks, workshops, classroom lectures, and articles.
My articles have appeared in Maryland Life, Chesapeake Life, and Delmarva Quarterly, as well as in newspapers and historical society journals. I have been interviewed about my work by the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Magazine, Southern Living, and other major periodicals.
As an adjunct professor, I teach history courses at several area universities and colleges.
My interest in the study of the past began in the late 1960s when I started volunteering as a teenager at a local historical society. Over the decades, I was able to lead the society through major growth and transformation and I continue to volunteer with the organization. Recently, I had the opportunity to provide start-up leadership for the development of a 62-acre living history museum for a municipality. That work involved organizing a nonprofit foundation, raising $1.5 million to start restoring a couple of 200-year-old houses, and develop an interpretive plan for the historic port on the Chesapeake Bay.
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I enjoy seeking out stories that create a distinctive sense of place. Along the way, I find rich, deep, and varied narratives about the past in our fascinating towns and communities.
My lectures and writings are based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, and oral history interviews. I draw on this applied knowledge of community, social, and family history in talks, workshops, classroom lectures, and articles.
My articles have appeared in Maryland Life, Chesapeake Life, and Delmarva Quarterly, as well as in newspapers and historical society journals. I have been interviewed about my work by the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Magazine, Southern Living, and other major periodicals.
As an adjunct professor, I teach history courses at several area universities and colleges.
My interest in the study of the past began in the late 1960s when I started volunteering as a teenager at a local historical society. Over the decades, I was able to lead the society through major growth and transformation and I continue to volunteer with the organization. Recently, I had the opportunity to provide start-up leadership for the development of a 62-acre living history museum for a municipality. That work involved organizing a nonprofit foundation, raising $1.5 million to start restoring a couple of 200-year-old houses, and develop an interpretive plan for the historic port on the Chesapeake Bay.
Email me for more information (see link below)
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