Spanning the arc of the author’s own life, this personal progress is by turns drolly self-mocking, mischievously randy and touchingly vulnerable
Democrats and Republicans are offering very different visions of the true USA. Simon Schama on the struggle to define national pride
As voters prepare to head to the polls, the historian reflects on campaigns through the centuries and their depiction in great art
The continuation of the Eilis Lacey saga is a moving, magnetic story of middle age and the pain of migration
We discuss the new Ridley Scott film with Sir Simon and the FT’s film expert Raph Abraham
The French emperor has long exerted a magnetic pull over artists. What is it that tempts so many to risk a creative Waterloo?
Even amid catastrophe, projects such as the Hand in Hand schools continue to work for mutual understanding
Daniel Radcliffe gives a great performance in this revival of Maria Friedman’s production at the Hudson Theatre
In the face of lethal peril, help for Jews has always been conditional
Donald Trump likes to dismiss rivals as ‘Republican In Name Only’. But, argues Simon Schama, it is the former president’s own MAGA movement that most deserves the label
The historian and star speaker at the FTWeekend Festival guest edits today’s FT Edit
The historian examines how medical knowledge and political force intersect to fight epidemic disease
From India to Britain, we have always managed to get in the way of our own inventiveness
After the ceremony, much will depend on what the King can do to restore a sense of shared national community
The pillars of American democracy, not just the viability of the ex-president’s campaign, are in the dock
‘Simon Schama’s History of Now’ continues a tradition that is fast fading amid highly polished but predictable programming
From Václav Havel to Ai Weiwei, writers and artists have led the way in the fight for human rights
The pieties of pundits bit the dust as voters went to the polls in support of abortion rights and electoral realities
The UK’s longest-serving monarch was so much more than a head of state — she was quintessential Britain
Following the savage attack on the author, Simon Schama argues that disrespect is essential for democracy and that his friend’s fight for free expression is for us all
This weekend, we're marking the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a spirited discussion …
As Putin appeals to the distant past to justify his invasion of Ukraine, militant nostalgia is on the march around the world
The hardware of the Russian invasion may well be operational but the software of its narrative has seized up
Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters
From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them