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Historians in the News
1-7-17

The First 100 Days: An Interview with Margaret O'Mara

by Rick Shenkman
Rick Shenkman is the publisher of the History News Network and the author of Political Animals:  How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (Basic Books, January 2016). You can follow him on Twitter. He blogs at stoneagebrain.

Margaret O'Mara is a professor of history at the University of Washington.

She was interviewed on January 7, 2017 by Rick Shenkman, the editor of the History News Network. The interview was conducted during the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.