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Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS is a journalist, librarian, & historian. She is the author of Silver Boom! The Rise and Decline of Leadville, Colorado as the United States Silver Capital, 1860–1896, and The Mysterious Prince of the Confederacy: Judah P. Benjamin and the Jewish goal of whiteness in the South. She has a BA in History & Art History, and a Masters in Library and Information Studies both from McGill University, and has done graduate work in Jewish history at Concordia University as part of the MA in Judaic Studies, where she focused Medieval & Modern Judaism and her thesis was on American Jewish History particularly Southern Jewish History in the 19th century.

Ms. Goodman wrote regularly about politics, news, education, and Judaism for Examiner.com until the publication closed in July 2016. She is the editor of History Musings… History, News & Politics which covers history news. An archive of her articles can be found at Academic Buzz Network. She was also the former Editor/Features Editor for the History News Network (HNN), and had been working for HNN from 2004-2010, where she was the editor of some of the online magazine’s popular features, “History Buzz,” “Political Highlights,” “Top Young Historians,” “History Doyens,” “On this Day in History.” She was also the news section contributor for Military History and Vietnam Magazine alternately from 2006-2008.

Ms. Goodman has also contributed to a number of reference publications; including the overviews, and chronologies for History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008, 4th edition, edited by Gil Troy, Fred L. Israel, and Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Facts on File, Inc. 2012, and the bibliographies for The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: a Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Spencer Tucker, ABC CLIO, 2007, and The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, And Canada in World Wars I And II, edited by James D. Ciment & Thaddeus Russell, ABC-CLIO, 2006.

Ms. Goodman currently blogs at Medium, where she was a top writer in history and regularly writes on “On This Day in History (#OTD in #History)” Feature and on the Times of Israel. Her scholarly articles can be found on Academia.edu

Ms. Goodman is an artist since 13, painting in acrylics, oils, and watercolors. She has a Diploma in Collegial Studies (DCS, DEC) from Vanier College in Communications: Art, Media, Theater specializing in the Fine Arts.

Recent Publications

Unpublished Books

Silver Boom! The Rise and Decline of Leadville, Colorado as the United States Silver Capital, 1860-1896, 2008, (181pp.)

Unpublished Thesis

“Unconditional Loyalty to the Cause: Southern Whiteness, Jewish Women, and Anti-Semitism, 1800-1913″ for the MA in Judaic Studies program at Concordia University. (2005-19)

Excerpts

• Unconditional Loyalty to the Cause: Southern Whiteness, Jewish Women, and Anti-Semitism, 1860-1913 – Introduction

• Eugenia Phillips, Jewish Confederate Firebrand
• Phoebe Levy Pember, The First Jewish Woman Civil War Hospital Matron

• The Confederacy safe haven for American Jews: Jews in the South 1800-1865

Essays

• Corrupt Bargain? 1824, John Quincy Adams’s Election as President in the House and Henry Clay’s Secretary of State Reward, 2019
• The Mysterious Prince of the Confederacy: Judah P. Benjamin and the Jewish goal of whiteness in the South, 2018
• “The Spirit of Progressive Urban Reform Public Health among the Tenements, 1880 to 1905,” 2005
• “Lending a Helping Hand: Henrietta Szold, the founding of Hadassah, and Zionism in the Progressive Era 1910-1920,” 2005

Selected Articles

• Israel’s Triumphant Six Day War Victory, Times of Israel, 2019
• Between anti-immigration and anti-Semitism: The German Jewish refugees aboard the ill-fated St. Louis 80 years later, Times of Israel, 2019
• Twenty years later Bill Clinton’s impeachment in historical perspective, Medium, 2018
• Nixon, Ford, and Watergate ending a Constitutional Crisis, Medium, 2018
• Alexander Hamilton sparks 200-year-old controversy over Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Medium, 2018
• President John F. Kennedy and two days that altered Civil Rights, Medium, 2018

Reference Books

• Troy, Gil, Arthur M. Schlesinger, and Fred L. Israel, eds. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008, 4th ed. New York: Facts On File, 2011. Contributed the Overviews and Chronologies for each election (1789-2008). History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008 – Overviews
• Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: a Political, Social, and Military History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007. (Contributed the bibliography)
• Ciment, James D. and Thaddeus Russell, eds. The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, And Canada in World Wars I and II. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. (Contributed the bibliographies for World War I & II)

Media Coverage

Social Media

@historyeditor

Country Focus

United States, Canada, Israel

Expertise by Geography

Middle East, North America, United States

Expertise by Chronology

17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

American Civil War, American Revolution, American Founding Era, American Presidents, Libraries & Archives, Race, Religion, Slavery, Women