Dr. Paul Hillmer

College of Arts & Sciences

Dr. Paul Hillmer
Associate Professor, History Department

Office#: AD 200
Phone: 651-641-8215
Fax: 651-659-0207
hillmer@csp.edu 

Links:
Home

Hmong Oral History Project

Class Pages:
HIS-111: Western Civilizations

HIS-212: Introduction to History

HIS-331: Religion in American Culture

Outside Resources 
Why Become a Historian?
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Disinfopedia
Links for Social Studies Educators
Misc. Links
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Grad Programs in History

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Paul Hillmer is a professor of American history at CSP.  He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota on 11 April, 2001.   He wrote his dissertation on various progressive movements in Cleveland, Ohio .  

His commissioned history,The Cleveland YMCA:  Reflection on 150 Years to a Community, was published in 2004.   He was then recruited by the Minneapolis YMCA to write a 140-year history of their youth development programs.  The resulting book, Breaking New Ground, Building Strong Lives, was published in 2006. 

By the spring of 2006 he returned to his long-shelved Hmong Oral History Project, started in 2001 with the invaluable assistance and leadership of Tou Thao, Peter Vang, Mai Neng Vang, Youa Vang, and others. He was awarded a "Save Our History" grant by the History Channel in July 2006, and used it to create a six-part documentary ("From Strangers to Neighbors") examining the Hmong people and their resettlement in the Twins Cities.  He has just completed a book based on the 200-plus interviews he and his students collected.  A People's History of the Hmong, published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, is scheduled for release on December 15, 2009.