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Historians in the News
1-7-17

Making Sense of the 2016 Election: An Interview with David Greenberg

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.

David Greenberg is a professor of history at Rutgers. He was interviewed by Rick Shenkman on January 7, 2017 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.