Gertrude Himmelfarb (August 8, 1922 – December 30, 2019), also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and …

Dec 31, 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb, a historian of ideas who applied cool intelligence and elegant writing to making the case that Victorian-era morals should invigorate contemporary …

A celebrated historian of Victorian England, Himmelfarb was a highly regarded writer who mixed biography and intellectual history to trace the curvature of influential ideas and the lives of …

Jan 3, 2020 · Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb died at her home on Monday evening, December 30, 2019. For readers of Evolution News, her real magnum opus remains Darwin and the …

Jun 23, 2021 · Gertrude Himmelfarb (also known has Bea Kristol) dedicated her long and noted career as a historian of ideas to the study of nineteenth-century Britain, an intellectual …

Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922-2019) was a distinguished author and social critic who specialized in the intellectual history of the Victorian era. Her sixteen books—published between the ages of …

Jan 2, 2020 · Gertrude Himmelfarb, our foremost historian of ideas and one of the nation’s greatest historians of any stamp, died Monday at 97. Though a Washingtonian for the last …

Dec 31, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — Gertrude Himmelfarb, the matriarch of one of the right’s most prominent families and a scholar of Victorian England who argued forcefully for conservatives …

Jan 2, 2020 · G ertrude Himmelfarb, who died last week in Washington, D.C., at 97, was everywhere described as a “historian of ideas,” which is certainly true. But she was also a …

Dec 31, 2019 · Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died at 97 last night, made this her central concern. She was a physician for the national soul. Himmelfarb was born in 1922 and grew up with her …