UB Distinguished Speakers Series – Jon Meacham

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is a highly sought-after commentator. He has the unique ability to bring history to life and offer historical context to current events.

A contributor to TIME, Meacham served as Newsweek‘s managing editor from 1998 to 2006 and as editor from 2006 to 2010. Meacham released two podcasts with the History Channel: “Hope Through History” and “It Was Said.” Meacham is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers including “The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,” “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” and his latest, “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle,” to name a few. Meacham’s “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” won a Pulitzer Prize.

Meacham is a frequent guest on “Morning Joe;” “Real Time with Bill Maher;” “The 11th Hour,” and was featured in Ken Burns’ documentary series “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.”

Named a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University where he holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency.