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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
