Simon Schama

A brutal king comes back to life in a frenzy of forensic romance. Simon Schama looks back at the strongman Richard III.

Shake us. Stir us. James Bond is back and cooler than ever. The iconic spy at 50. By Simon Schama.

Simon Schama on how Republicans are declaring war on history.

Simon Schama says the provocateur brilliantly skewered our self-deceptions, though his irony developed a frosty rime at its bitter edge.

Queen Elizabeth II celebrates a glorious 60 years on the throne with her Diamond Jubilee. Renowned historian Simon Schama recounts the day a 27-year-old woman galvanized a modern nation.

All walks of life teemed aboard the RMS Titanic—from dollar dukes to striving immigrants. Little did they know how they would be betrayed.

The novelist made masterpieces out of modern cruelties.

Why have Americans fallen for a show that serves up snobbery by the bucketful?

He deployed against purveyors of unreasoned pieties.

As the economic crisis rages, leading British historian Simon Schama makes an impassioned plea: America's fate remains deeply intertwined with the continent.

Robert Hughes's exhilarating new history gives us an Eternal City steeped in more than the legends of Caesar.

The new film 'Anonymous' says the Bard was a fraud. Don't buy it.

Eye of the hawk: Lucian Freud was a profoundly confrontational artist, assaulting his subjects in paint. By Simon Schama.

What the fate of Roger Clemens tells us about our craving for heroes.

Shakespeare's lessons in eloquence have never been more important.

The Constitution's framers were flawed like today's politicians, we should stop embalming them in infallibility.