Edward S. Shapiro

Edward S. Shapiro is an emeritus professor of history at Seton Hall University.

Academic Questions

November 20, 2025

Harvard in the Dock

Edward S. Shapiro

Historian Edward S. Shapiro examines the report on antisemitism at Harvard commissioned by the school in the wake of its anemic response to the unrest on campus after the Hamas attacks on Israel of Oc......

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November 20, 2025

The Tarnished Arches of the Hamburger King

Edward S. Shapiro

Edward S. Shapiro says that Marcia Chatelain’s Pulitzer prize-winning book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, fails to acknowledge some of the positive effects the hamburge......

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July 3, 2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates Sends a Message

Edward S. Shapiro

Edward S. Shapiro’s dissects Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message, in which Shapiro discovers that Coates is an “ideologue awash in his grievances,” basking in the undue ad......

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April 14, 2025

The Historians’ Intellectual Malpractice

Edward S. Shapiro

On January 5, 2025, the attendees at the American Historical Association convention in New York City voted to approve a resolution strongly condemning Israel for its response to the atrocities committ......

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April 14, 2025

The Politics of History

Edward S. Shapiro

Historian Edward S. Shapiro points out that Nick Witham’s Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America is marred by the author’s obvious sel......

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December 12, 2024

Loury’s Dilemma

Edward S. Shapiro

In Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative renowned political economist Glenn C. Loury speaks unabashedly of his many bad decisions.

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September 18, 2024

A Voice of Sanity

Edward S. Shapiro

Coleman Hughes’ The End of Race Politics, provides an extended defense of the colorblind society, which Shapiro calls a “persuasive and compelling counter to the New York Times&#......

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September 18, 2024

The Academy and its Discontents

Edward S. Shapiro

Shapiro respects the diligence of Elizabeth M. Kalbfleisch in her Making the Radical University, where she marks the historical events leading to the leftward shift in the American academy over t......

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June 24, 2024

Recalling the 1960s

Edward S. Shapiro

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd’s Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America, writes historian Edward S. Shapiro, is a prime example of “usable past”......

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February 28, 2024

Remembering Harvard

Edward S. Shapiro

When historian Edward Shapiro attended graduate school at Harvard University in the 1960s, the history department was a “jewel in Harvard’s crown.” Shapiro left Harvard in 1963 just......

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