News
Recent Press
“How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America,” review in H-Environment, March 2025.
“Geological to a fault: How Americans asserted their providential place in the world,” book review in the TLS, February 7, 2025.
“How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America,” review in Leonardo, February 2025.
“The Best Books of 2024,” The New Yorker, January 15, 2025.
“How Dinosaurs Changed American Identity,” TIME, January 14, 2025.
“How Geology Shaped American Culture,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 20, 2024.
“Briefly Noted” Book Reviews, The New Yorker, November 11, 2024.
“A ‘deep time revolution’ paved the way to American modernity, Stanford historian asserts,” Stanford Report, October 11, 2024.
Interviews
“Ben Franklin May Be Responsible for Bringing Tofu to America,” Smithsonian Magazine, March 15, 2018.
“Q&A: Caroline Winterer discusses the digital humanities,” The Stanford Daily, June 24, 2015.
“Back to the future” (on digital history), New Scientist, June 28, 2014.
“What Is the Future of the History PhD?” History News Network, May 5, 2014.
“Dear Sir, Ben Franklin Would Like to Add You to His Network,” Smithsonian Magazine, December 2013.
“Stanford scholar links Rome and America in Philadelphia exhibition,” Stanford Report, February 19, 2010.
Op-eds
“Clinton’s Emails and Trump’s Tweets: They’re a Politician’s Nightmare but a Historian’s Dream,” History News Network, November 2, 2016.
“American Genesis: In treating the nation’s founders as holy relics, America forgets they were revolutionaries and risk-takers,” Aeon, October 5, 2016.
“Letter to the Editor: Role of Humanities, in School and Life,” The New York Times, November 5, 2013.
Book Reviews
“The Story We Tell Ourselves: On Clay Risen’s ‘The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century,’” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 30, 2019.
“Buck up, everyone! We are riding along the Enlightenment’s long path of progress,” Review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, Washington Post, February 23, 2018.