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Annette Laing is a fine historian whose skills -- most uncommonly -- are finely tuned to every audience, whether children, educators, or the community at large.  She has a rare gift of bringing authentic stories to life for everyone." 

Jamil Zainaldin, PhD

President Emeritus
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Georgia Humanities

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Annette's Bio: 

Annette Laing is an academic and public historian (PhD, University of California, Riverside), the author of The Snipesville Chronicles series of middle-grades time-travel novels, a speaker, and the creator, presenter, and advocate of historical thinking and what she calls Non-Boring History, particularly for children and young teens. Her work has been featured by the Associated Press.

As a scholar of early American and the Atlantic World, Annette Laing is best known for her seminal essay on early American popular religious culture, "Heathens and Infidels? African Christianization and Anglicanism in the Early South Carolina Low Country."

Formerly a tenured professor at Georgia Southern University, Dr. Laing resigned in 2008 to turn full-time to her greatest passion, interpreting academic history and historical thinking for the broadest possible audience.

As Annette says, "When historians talk about reaching the public, often they're thinking of guys in bow ties. I'm more likely thinking of fourth graders and their teachers in a small town."

Born in Scotland and raised in England, Annette Laing has for many years made her home in the US, but she spends several weeks each year traveling and researching in the UK. 

Annette is based in Atlanta, GA and Madison, WI. She travels nationwide.