James Banner

Historian in Residence
Department of History

• James M. Banner, Jr., holds a BA from Yale and a PhD from Columbia, where he studied with Richard Hofstadter. He was a member of the history department of Princeton University from 1966 to 1980, which he left to found the American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities. A former Guggenheim Fellow, fellow of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard, member of the board of directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, and Fulbright Visiting Professor of American History at Charles University, Prague, he is the author of books and articles in American history, education, and public affairs. He is currently writing a book on revisionist history tentatively entitled “The Unstable Past: An Introduction to Revisionist History.” Banner is co-founder and co-director of the History News Service and a founder of the National History Center.