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Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, [ 1] and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. [ 2]
The New-York Historical Society has chosen Brinkley as their official U.S. Presidential Historian. His recent book Cronkite won the Sperber Prize while The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.
Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He has received seven honorary doctorates in American Studies.
3 days ago · C-SPAN spoke with historian Douglas Brinkley about the history of political conventions as well as comparisons between 2024 and 1968, a year featuring political violence, protests against foreign ...
Jun 17, 2015 · Douglas Brinkley is CNN’s Presidential Historian, a professor of history at Rice University and author of many books.
3 days ago · Doug Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and a professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley joined CBS News to discuss the current state of unity in the country, Bill ...
3 days ago · C-SPAN spoke with historian Douglas Brinkley about the history of political conventions as well as comparisons between 2024 and 1968, a year featuring...
Dec 31, 2023 · Endangered Species. Historian Douglas Brinkley celebrates the success of the 1973 law that finally gave legal protection to America's iconic flora and fauna facing extinction.
On April 25, 2022, the Frank Church Institute honored Dr. Douglas Brinkley, Presidential Historian and Recipient of the Frank and Bethine Church Award for Public Service. Dr. Brinkley spoke on “Silent Spring Revolution: Why Environmentalism is a Winning Issue for Democracy.”.
In this rich and inspiring book, the acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes us on an incredible journey of the United States — a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes a few small colonies made a bold cast at freedom, then burgeoned into an expanding democracy, and ultimately flourished as a world power.