Simon Schama is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. He is a contributing editors of the Financial Times, and regular broadcaster and documentary film maker for the BBC.
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The Return of Ruthless Richard
A brutal king comes back to life in a frenzy of forensic romance.... MORE
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Bond is Back
Shake us. Stir us. James Bond is back and cooler than ever. The iconic spy at 50. By Simon Schama. MORE
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How Obama Threw It All Away
Historian Simon Schama asks if the president can turn things around after the disaster in Denver. MORE
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A Powerful Voice Now Silenced
Simon Schama on the death of an irreplaceable writer—Robert Hughes, an art critic of furious... MORE
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Vidal’s Spidery Glee
Simon Schama says the provocateur brilliantly skewered our self-deceptions, though his irony... MORE
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Hats Off, Danny Boy
It was antic, manic, magical, and mischievous—and thoroughly British.... MORE
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The Greatest Day of Her Life
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates a glorious 60 years on the throne with her Diamond Jubilee.... MORE
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Titanic’s Wake
All walks of life teemed aboard the RMS Titanic—from dollar dukes to striving immigrants.... MORE
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A Dickens For Our Times
The novelist made masterpieces out of modern cruelties. MORE
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No Downers in Downton
Why have Americans fallen for a show that serves up snobbery by the bucketful? MORE
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How Hitchens Said Goodbye
He deployed against purveyors of unreasoned pieties. MORE
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Why You Should Care About Europe
As the economic crisis rages, leading British historian Simon Schama makes an impassioned plea:... MORE
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Rome, Reimagined
Robert Hughes's exhilarating new history gives us an Eternal City steeped in more than the legends... MORE
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The Shakespeare Shakedown
The new film ‘Anonymous’ says the Bard was a fraud. Don’t buy it. MORE
