Donald Trump in Historical Context: The Story so Far
hosted by Professor
Mark Gilbert
David Milne
Professor of Modern History, University of East Anglia
David Milne is currently Professor in Modern History at the University of East Anglia. Milne was an associate tutor at the LSE from 2002 to 2003 and a lecturer in American Foreign Relations at the University of Nottingham from 2004 to 2008.
Milne, graduated from the London School of Economics with a BA in History in 1998 and an MSc in the History of International Relations in 2000. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2005.
Milne's first book,
America's Rasputin: Walt Rostow and the Vietnam War, was published in 2008, followed by
Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy in 2015, which was praised by novelist Christos Tsiolkas in 2021. He serves as the senior editor of the
Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History and co-edited
Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories. Milne has published in various academic journals, including
Diplomatic History and
The Journal of Military History, and his writings have appeared in prominent outlets such as
The Wall Street Journal, the
Los Angeles Times, and
Foreign Policy.
David's current book-in-progress is a biography of the trailblazing Chicago Tribune journalist, Sigrid Schultz. The British journalist Quentin Reynolds believed Schultz's Berlin reporting made her "Hitler's greatest enemy."; Hermann Göring denounced Schultz as "that dragon lady from Chicago." Yet Schultz has largely vanished from historical view. An ally to Gustav Stresemann, interviewer of Hitler, and prescient analyst of Nazism, Schultz overcame significant obstacles - as a woman in a male-dominated milieu; as a foreign journalist working a totalitarian state; and as an interventionist at an isolationist newspaper - throughout a remarkable career. "Witness to Catastrophe: A Life of Sigrid Schultz" is under contract with Oxford University Press.
