Nick Witham

Nick Witham is a historian of the twentieth-century United States. He is Associate Professor of United States History at University College London, UK, where he is also Head of Department at the Institute of the Americas. His interests span post-1945 US political and intellectual history in transnational perspective, encompassing the histories of protest, imperialism and anti-imperialism, historiography, and memory.

Nick's latest book is Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2023). His first book, The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: U.S. Protest and Central American Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2015), won the British Association for American Studies Arthur Miller Prize. He is also the co-editor of Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).