Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Simon Schama - BBC At one point during Simon Schama's Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who ...

Pandemics. Quarantine. Vaccines. These concepts have been at the forefront of our minds for over three years now. Having lived through the height of the COVID pandemic, it would be easy for us to ...

Simon Schama opens his latest book, "Foreign Bodies," with this reminder - in the end, all history is natural history. He tells how humans have contended with mass contagion and death through ...

Sir Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University, and Contributing Editor of the Financial Times. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Universities.

Simon Schama explores the history of British portraiture, revealing the stories behind the most compelling images in British art and examining the ways portraiture is used to make a statement.

Schama, 61, was born in 1945 and raised in England, where his Jewish immigrant family -- his father was a textile merchant -- had sought refuge. He read history at Cambridge but found himself tempted ...

WBUR senior health and science reporter Gabrielle Emanuel moderated a conversation with historian and best-selling author Simon Schama about his new book, “Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the ...

"First published in Great Britain in 2008 by The Bodley Head"--T.p. verso. Historian Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the 2008 presidential election and its importance for ...