# Daniel Immerwahr
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daniel immerwahr is an American historian. His book, Thinking Small, won the Merle Curti Award.
== Life ==
Immerwahr completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia University, a graduate degree at King's College, Cambridge and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.
The end of the American Empire
Is the American empire in decline?The Trump administration's recent military actions have had certain observers asking... are we going full empire? But Daniel Immerwahr, a historian and the author of How to Hide an Empire, argues that the U.S. has engaged in empire building for hundreds of years — …
100 Objects #2: 60-Degree Screw
In the early 20th century, nothing quite fit — fire hoses couldn't connect to one another, football teams played with different balls, traffic lights meant different things in different states. Then World War II exposed the deadly cost of incompatibility, and the US quietly imposed a single solutio…
Why a digital detox won’t reset your attention span with Gloria Mark
Many people report that their attention spans have diminished—but what if you can rebuild your concentration skills? Gloria Mark is a professor of informatics at UC Irvine who studies the impact of digital media on people’s lives. In this episode, Gloria joins Adam to dig into her research on multi…
E85 - Summer Reading List 2026: Books That Challenge How We See the World, Teaching, and Ourselves
On our second ✨annual✨ summer reading list, we explore a curated selection of memoirs, nonfiction, and fiction that have shaped how we think about identity, belonging, error, and what it means to be human. This year's picks lean heavily into nonfiction and memoir, reflecting a shared desire to unde…
America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History”
Americans tend to see the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War as milestones in world history that inaugurated the era of modern democracy. But the British, unsurprisingly, see these events quite differently. David Remnick talks with the historians who host the popular podcast “The…
Two Flags in My Heart: A Cherokee Reflection on America's 250th Birthday
As America commemorates the 250th anniversary of its founding, Joshua Hopping explores one of the most personal and emotionally complex holidays of the year.
As both an American patriot and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Joshua reflects on what it means to celebrate a nation whose birth represe…
Trump’s Impulsive Foreign Policy Is Tearing Apart the Global Order
More To The Story: When President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he promised to largely steer America clear of foreign entanglements. But over the last year, his administration has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, threatened to take over Greenland, openly talked about makin…
Daniel Immerwahr on American Empire - Past, Present, and Future
Daniel Immerwahr is a historian, scholar, professor, and author whose work explores U.S. and global history, with a particular focus on the ways the past continues to shape the present. He currently teaches U.S. and global history at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Im…
A New Term of Supreme Chaos
It’s been a long summer, but Leah, Kate and Melissa are back together to break down the biggest cases and legal battles coming to the Supreme Court this term. Starting in October, the justices will hear challenges involving AR-15s and semi-automatic rifles, religious exemptions for schools receiv…
ReThinking: The truth about the attention crisis with historian Daniel Immerwahr
In the age of social media and short-form content, many people insist that our attention spans are getting shorter. But historian Daniel Immerwahr reminds us that people have cried wolf for centuries about technology hijacking our attention. In this episode, Adam and Daniel dive into evidence that …
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