About Daniel Immerwahr
I am a Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where I teach U.S. and global history in the History Department. I am also a contributing writer at The New Yorker. My first book, Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015), offers a critical account of the United States' pursuit of grassroots development at home and abroad in the middle of the twentieth century. My second, the bestselling How to Hide an Empire (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), is a narrative history of the United States with its overseas territory included in the story. I'm now writing a fire history of the United States.
I am a contributing writer at The New Yorker. My writing has also appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Republic, The Guardian, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, Foreign Policy, Slate, Diplomatic History, Modern Intellectual History, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of American Studies, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, Modern American History, Jacobin, n+1 (online), and Dissent, among other venues.
Related Works
- Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire? (The New Yorker)
- The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn't Happen (The New Yorker)
- Tariff Men: Why Donald Trump is Obsessed with William McKinley (The New Yorker)
