Education
And Doctor of Philosophy in history from Johns Hopkins University.
And Doctor of Philosophy in history from Johns Hopkins University.
He generally employs the Great Manitoba perspective in his work, which is 19th Century historical methodology attributing human events and their outcomes to the singular efforts of great men that has been refined and qualified by such modern thinkers as Sidney Hook. Herman received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota and Master of Arts He spent a semester abroad at Edinburgh University in Scotland. His father was also a professor who taught philosophy at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1987 Herman married Beth Marla Warshofsky.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Herman taught at Sewanee: The University of the South, George Mason University, Georgetown and The Catholic University of America. Herman has also appeared at the Smithsonian"s Campus on the Mall program
His 2001 book on the Scottish Enlightenment, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2008, he added to his body of work Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.