David Greenberg

David Greenberg, a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, has written for Slate since 1996. He is the author of several books of political history.

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What We Lost With the Loss of the New Republic

David Greenberg

Dec 05, 2014 5:09 PM

Stop Eulogizing Gore Vidal: He Was a Racist and an Elitist

David Greenberg

Aug 02, 2012 11:41 AM

What Santorum Misunderstands About Kennedy’s 1960 Speech on Religious Freedom

David Greenberg

Feb 27, 2012 12:39 PM

Why Are Republicans Suddenly So Obsessed With Calvin Coolidge?

David Greenberg

Nov 10, 2011 12:37 PM

John Morton Blum: The Death of a Legendary Historian

David Greenberg

Oct 21, 2011 12:05 PM

Dorothy Burlingham’s Twins: Remembering the seminal psychological study.

David Greenberg and Maida Greenberg

Aug 24, 2011 7:26 PM

Yale anti-Semitism controversy: How did a concern with anti-Semitism come to be seen as the province of the right?

David Greenberg

July 01, 2011 4:56 PM

Democracy by Henry Adams: why it’s the best anonymous Washington novel.

David Greenberg

April 20, 2011 2:28 PM

Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex”: His farewell address has been completely misunderstood.

David Greenberg

Jan 14, 2011 6:57 AM

Jared Loughner: Of course his actions were politically motivated.

David Greenberg

Jan 10, 2011 6:01 PM

The real purpose of the Espionage Act.

David Greenberg

Dec 27, 2010 8:47 AM

Obama needs a little of the Truman touch.

David Greenberg

Nov 19, 2010 7:16 AM

What the new Woodrow Wilson haters don’t understand.

David Greenberg

Oct 22, 2010 7:12 AM

Did JFK really win because he looked better on television?

David Greenberg

Sept 24, 2010 7:16 AM

How Wilson and Roosevelt tried to roll back the power of corporations.

David Greenberg

July 15, 2010 1:35 PM

Two history professors read Elena Kagan’s undergraduate thesis.

David Greenberg and Tony Michels

May 21, 2010 5:54 PM

Obama’s Achilles’ heel.

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Sarah Palin = Dan Quayle.

David Greenberg

Nov 17, 2009 3:40 PM