American History

Writing for the New York Times, 2018–19 Member in the School of Social Science Michael Kazin recalls the civil strife surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He argues that the cultural, social, and political divisions of that period,...

Foreign Affair's G. John Ikenberry reviews Professor Emeritus Jonathan Israel's The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848, writing, "This book’s wide-angle account of the nineteenth-century spread of revolutionary...

Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, discusses his book The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848 with Gilad Halpern and Dalia Scheindlin of the Tel Aviv Review.

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Caitlin Fitz of the Wall Street Journal reviews The Expanding Blaze by Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, writing, "A relative newcomer to U.S. history, Mr. Israel sometimes brings a refreshing outsider’s...

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Princeton University Press, 2017) by Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, has been named the Times Higher Education's Book of the Week...