The British Museum has said a Jewish event will go ahead in early June after being accused of “appeasing antisemites” for ...

Louise Arbour, Simon Schama, Nigel Farage, and Mark Steyn. House of Anansi (PGW, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0212-1 In a provocative debate, Arbour, a ...

Simon Schama didn't want "The Story of the Jews," five hours of television and two big books, to be only "pogroms and rabbinics" - his history would draw on many sources: archaeology and hermeneutics, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Simon Schama - BBC At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who ...

A brutal king comes back to life in a frenzy of forensic romance. Simon Schama looks back at the strongman Richard III. Shake us. Stir us. James Bond is back and cooler than ever. The iconic spy at 50 ...

In this week’s Comment, Simon Schama writes about the British elections. Today, Schama answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of the discussion follows. THE NEW YORKER: Simon Schama ...

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 ...