LaDale Winling is an urban and maritime historian, a boat builder and a sailor. His research explores the origins of redlining and the practice of housing discrimination; in his teaching he details American maritime history and is developing a wooden boat building workshop. Winling is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the NEH, the Newberry Library, the National Building Museum, the ACLS, the National Archives, and the Huntington Library.

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