While some historians are passionately behind the Obama candidacy, one leading figure in the field is throwing his support to Obama’s chief rival. In an interview with a blogger from Newsweek, ...

The university absorbed many of them, like Sean Wilentz himself. As the offspring of that bookstore, however, he has resisted settling into an academic career insulated from larger cultural life.

As the Democratic Party seeks to heal bruised feelings from a hard-fought primary campaign, many liberal intellectuals are puzzled and angered by the behavior of the Princeton University historian ...

“There is no other more central or urgent topic in our history than slavery,” University history professor Sean Wilentz stated at a Sept. 28 panel discussion on his most recent book, “No Property in ...

A reader sends this link to a powerful essay by Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, one of America’s leading historians, who writes about the scandal of The New York Times‘s 1619 Project, and the moral and ...

History professor, music lover and political activist Sean Wilentz has received the 2006 Bancroft Prize for his recent book, "The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln." Wilentz will be ...

Academic workers strike at the UC Berkeley in California, United States in 2022. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) The biggest strike in the country this year, and the biggest in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Bob Dylan arrived in New York City in January 1961, he was a 19-year-old from Minnesota armed with an acoustic guitar and a ...

Historian Sean Wilentz talks with Steve Inskeep about how American presidents have defined the powers of the office. Wilentz is a professor at Princeton University and author of The Rise of American ...