Over at Public Seminar, Cal-Berkeley intellectual historian David Hollinger talks with New School historian Claire Potter about his forthcoming book, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular. Here is a taste: CP: You suggested earlier...
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What will happen to Beth Moore?
She has left the Southern Baptist Convention. What now? Over at her Substack newsletter “Political Junkie,” historian Claire Potter talks with historian Neil Young about Moore’s future. Young does a nice job of explaining Moore to Potter’s audience, an audience...
*Harper’s Magazine* publishes “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”
This letter will appear in the October 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Signers include Anne Applebaum, Margaret Atwood, David Blight, David Brooks, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Early, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Todd Gitlin, Anthony Grafton, David Greenberg, Jonathan Haidt, Michael...
More Historians Weigh-In on the Trump Acquittal
Politico has gathered historians Michael Kimmage, Claire Potter, Mary Frances Berry, David Blight, Allan Lichtman, Brooks Simpson, and Jeremi Suri. Here is Blight: The impeachment and acquittal of Trump in 2020 left the country’s political culture in spiraling decline. For the...
How Will Historians Remember the Decade (2010-2019)?
Politico asked historians how the history books will cover the past decade. Contributors include David Kennedy, Tom Nichols, David Greenberg, Keisha Blain, Peniel Joseph, Heather Cox Richardson, George Nash, Kevin Kruse, Andrew Bacevich, Claire Potter, David Hollinger, Nicole Hemmer, Jack...
Did Men Invent “Likability?”
Check out historian Claire Potter‘s piece at The New York Times: “Men Invented ‘Likability.’ Guess Who Benefits.” She reflects on the origins of the idea of “likability” advertising culture and, eventually presidential politics. As Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and...
OAH Dispatch: Historians on “Hamilton”
We are happy to have Julianne Johnson writing for us this weekend from the floor of the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Sacramento. Julianne is a Ph.D student at Claremont Graduate University and Assistant Professor of History...
What is a Public Intellectual?
I wish I was at the Annual Meeting of the United States Intellectual History (USIH) Society going on right now in Washington D.C. Thanks to some great tweeters–especially Jonathan Wilson–I have been able to get a decent sense of what...
Do You Want to Make Money From Writing Books?
There are a lot of ways to make money from writing books, but for many of us who publish monographs with university presses, royalties are not one of them. So far my name is on the cover of four books–two...
Being A Public Intellectual: Historians and the Public
Julian Zelizer, Princeton University On Saturday afternoon I attended a session at AHA 2015 entitled “Being a Public Intellectual: Historians and the Public.” There were some high-powered historians on this panel, including Peniel Joseph, Claire Potter, Julian Zelizer, Eric Foner,...