Daniel Immerwahr is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he focuses on US and global history. He is the author of How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States, which won the Robert H. Ferrell Prize and was a New York Times’ critics best book of the year, and Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development, which won the Organization of American Historians’ Merle Curti Award. He has written for The New Yorker, Atlantic, n+1, Slate, Dissent, and other publications.