Daniel Immerwahr
Research:
- All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Past and Present
- Burning Down the House: Slavery and Arson in America, Journal of American History, preprint
- 2024 Binkley-Stephenson Award, Organization of American Historians
- The Border Crossed Us: Taking the Measure of a Migrating Country, in New Narratives of the Peopling of America, ed. Alex Aleinikoff, preprint
- Philippine Independence in U.S. History: A Car, Not a Train, Pacific Historical Review, preprint
- The Quileute Dune: Frank Herbert, Indigeneity, and Empire, Journal of American Studies
- The Territorial Empire, The Cambridge History of America and the World, vol. 3, ed. Brooke Blower and Andrew Preston, preprint
- Frontier, Ocean, Empire: Expansionist Vistas in Winslow Homer's United States, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents, ed. Stephanie Herdrich and Sylvia Yount, preprint
- The Iron Hand of Power: U.S. Architectural Imperialism in the Philippines, Architectural History
- Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comics and U.S. Global Hegemony, Modern American History
- The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas's Star Wars, in Ideology and U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories, ed. Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne, preprint
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
- 2019 Los Angeles Times bestseller, nonfiction
- 2019 New York Times bestseller, audio nonfiction
- 2019 New York Times Critics' Top Books of the Year title
- 2019 Chicago Tribune Top Ten Books of the Year title
- 2019 National Public Radio Top Books of the Year title
- 2020 Robert H. Ferrell Prize, Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Finalist (runner up), 2020 Mark Lynton History Prize
- Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers
- Shortlist, 2019 Historical Writers' Association Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown
- Critics' roundtables: Passport, H-Diplo, Il Mestiere di Storico (Italian intro, English roundtable)
- Interviews: On the Media, Democracy Now, Fresh Air, Longreads, New Books Network
- The Moon Landing: Twilight of Empire, Modern American History
- The Greater United States: Territory and Empire in U.S. History, Diplomatic History
- Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development
- 2016 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History (Organization of American Historians)
- 2016 Annual Book Prize from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (co-winner)
- Critics' roundtable: H-Diplo
- Interviews: Dissent, New Books Network
- Polanyi in the United States: Peter Drucker, Karl Polanyi, and the Midcentury Critique of Economic Society, Journal of the History of Ideas
- Translated into Japanese and published as “Shijo to kokka, soshite kabushiki gaisha,” trans. Yoshida Masayuki, Gendai shiso
- The Fact/Narrative Distinction and Student Examinations in History, The History Teacher
- Caste or Colony?: Indianizing Race in the United States, Modern Intellectual History
- Selected as one of Modern Intellectual History's ten “Highlights of a Decade,” 2014
- The Politics of Architecture and Urbanism in Postcolonial Lagos, 1960-1986, Journal of African Cultural Studies
- "History and the Sciences," with Philip Kitcher, in Daniel Herwitz and Michael Kelly, eds., Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur Danto
- Reprinted in Explanation in the Special Sciences: The Case of Biology and History, ed. Andreas Hutterman, Oliver Scholz, and Marie I. Kaiser
Select essays and reviews:
- Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire?, The New Yorker
- The Iranian Revolution Almost Didn't Happen, The New Yorker
- Tariff Men: Why Donald Trump is Obsessed with William McKinley, The New Yorker
- Doctor's Orders: RFK Jr., Anthony Fauci, and the Revolt against Expertise, The New Yorker
- What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?, The New Yorker
- The New Combustible Age, The New Yorker
- How the Golden Girls Celebrated, and Distorted, Old Age, The New Yorker
- The Show Must Go On: Ronald Reagan's Neverending Presidency, The New Yorker
- The Power of the Pirates, The New Yorker
- Mother Trees and Socialist Forests: Is the 'Wood Wide Web' a Fantasy? The Guardian
- Make It Hurt: What Frantz Fanon and Ian Fleming Agreed On, The New Yorker
- Zoning Out: On Economic Zones, New York Review of Books
- Your Lying Eyes: What the Doomsayers Get Wrong about Deepfakes, The New Yorker
- The Pitchfork of History: Beyond the Myth of Rural America, The New Yorker
- Bury My Heart at Waco, The New Yorker
- Did George Washington Burn New York? The Atlantic
- Are We Really Prisoners of Geography? The Guardian
- Wielding Wheat: A New History Makes the Case for the World-Ordering Power of Wheat, New York Review of Books
- Why Reading History for Its "Lessons" Misses the Point, Slate
- Forgetting the Apocalypse: Why Our Nuclear Fears Have Faded and Why That's Dangerous, The Guardian
- Change the Map, Change the Moral: A New History of World War II, The Atlantic
- A Deranged Pyroscape: How Fires Across the World Have Grown Weirder, The Guardian
- How is Dune So Prescient about Climate Change?: Thank This Native American Tribe, New York Times
- Beyond the State: David Graeber and David Wengrow's Anarchist History of Humanity, The Nation
- The Strange, Sad Death of America's Political Imagination, New York Times
- The Pandemic Has Forced Our Reading Online: Has That Helped? Perspectives on History
- We All Move: The Science and Politics of Migration, The Nation
- The Paleo Con: The Myth of a Carefree Prehistoric Lifestyle, The New Republic
- History Isn't Just for Patriots, Washington Post
- Should America Still Police the World? The New Yorker
- Fort Everywhere: How Did the United States Get Entangled in a Cycle of Endless War? The Nation
- Tree Huggers: More than Iron, Stone, or Oil, Wood Explains Human History, The New Republic
- Heresies of Dune, Los Angeles Review of Books
- You Can Only See Liberalism from the Bottom: Pankaj Mishra's Bland Fanatics, Foreign Policy
- The Great Germ War Cover-Up: Nicholson Baker's Decade-Long Search for the Truth about Biological Weapons, The New Republic
- A World to Win: Decolonization and the Pursuit of a More Egalitarian World Order, The Nation
- The Map that Remade an Empire, Mother Jones
- The Center Does Not Hold: Jill Lepore's Awkward Embrace of the Nation, The Nation
- When did the United States Start Calling Itself America, Anyway? Mother Jones
- Trump's Greenland Plan Shows He Has No Idea How American Power Works, New York Times
- All Over the Map: Jared Diamond Struggles to Understand a Connected World, The New Republic
- The Ugly American: Peeling the Onion of an Iconic Cold War Text, Journal of American-East Asian Relations
- Trump Neglects and Demeans U.S. Territories, Washington Post
- How the US Has Hidden Its Empire, The Guardian
- Power is Sovereignty, Mr. Bond, Dissent
- Development Politics: Seeing Past Ideas, Diplomatic History
- The Lethal Crescent: Where the Cold War Was Hot, The Nation
- Privacy Settings, Dissent
- Daniel Sargent's Pax Americana, H-Diplo
- We're the Good Guys, Right?: On Marvel Movies, n+1
- How General John Pershing Actually Dealt with Filipino Muslims, Slate
- The Thirty Years’ Crisis: Anxiety and Fear in the Midcentury United States, Modern Intellectual History
- Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty, Jacobin
- Growth vs. the Climate, Dissent
- Reprinted in Kurt Finsterbusch, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Social Issues, 19th ed.
- What Did You Do in the War, Doctor?: On Social Scientists and Social Change, n+1
- Charting the Road to Davos: The Rise and Fall of Internationalism, Dissent
- Modernization and Development in U.S. Foreign Relations, Passport
- The Foundation Statesmen, n+1