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Timothy Snyder

Trump is indicted. Historians weigh-in.

John Fea   |  June 9, 2023

Here is CNN: “The former president faces his first federal indictment for retention of classified documents and conspiracy with a top aide to hide them from the government and his own attorneys — a total of 37 counts.” Read an […]

Will American democracy survive another Trump presidency?

John Fea   |  January 15, 2022

Yale historian Timothy Snyder is not optimistic. Here is a taste of his interview with Charles Davis of Business Insider: Let’s revisit this scenario where Trump and the Republican Party have claimed victory and have had some legal cloaking of […]

Snyder: “The war on history is a war on democracy”

John Fea   |  June 30, 2021

Yale historian Timothy Snyder sees a lot of similarities between the discussion of race happening right now in American schools and the 20th-century European totalitarianism regimes thought about the past. Here is a taste of his piece The New York […]