At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who made programmes for the BBC’s groundbreaking Open Door series. “Vegans, anarchists, feminists, ...
That’s Sir Simon Schama to you. On February 5 Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, knighted Schama, the 73-year-old historian and Columbia University professor, for his contribution to history, the ...
He is known for his popular BBC history show and his many books, including one on “The Story of the Jews.” (JTA) — British Jewish historian Simon Schama was awarded a knighthood at Buckingham Palace ...
In his most personal project to date, Simon Schama looks back at the dramatic history that has played out in his lifetime. Best known for writing history, he has lived a fair bit of it too. Born in ...
WATCH: Foreign Bodies: Simon Schama on the history of pandemics, vaccines, and the health of nations
WBUR senior health and science reporter Gabrielle Emanuel moderated a conversation with historian and best-selling author Simon Schama about his new book, “Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the ...
Simon Schama opens his latest book, "Foreign Bodies," with this reminder - in the end, all history is natural history. He tells how humans have contended with mass contagion and death through ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Simon M. Schama is a University Professor for Art History and History in the Columbia University with 15 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1989 ...
Ella Stewart-Peters does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
Thirty years ago, an essay by the late public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Jr. explored a profound question: "The Theory of America: Experiment or Destiny?" It examined two visions of the national ...
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