In Defense of History

Author Bio: Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans, one of the world’s leading historians of modern Germany, is the author of many books, including Death in Hamburg, winner of the Wolfson History Prize. He has served as Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge; president of Wolfson College, Cambridge; and provost of Gresham College in the City of London. He has received the Hamburg Medal for Art and Science for cultural services to the city and the British Academy’s Leverhulme Medal and Prize, awarded for a significant contribution to the humanities or social sciences. In 2000, he was the principal expert witness in the David Irving Holocaust denial libel trial at the High Court in London, subsequently the subject of the film Denial. In 2012, he was knighted for services to scholarship.