Jennifer Burns is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
Speaking
Professor Burns is available for public speaking engagements. A dynamic and lively speaker, Dr. Burns was recently honored as a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians and has been named a “Top Young Historian” by the History News Network. Her recent appearances include: Mary Washington University Great Lives Series, the Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College, Campbell University, Wabash College, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Accolades and Video Clips
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Personalize your copy -- or give a special gift -- with a free signed book plate! Click here for info.Watch Professor Burns on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Oct. 15th!
Recent Blog Posts
- Was Ayn Rand Randian?
- Maker Faire: Where Libertarian Dreams Come True
- The Right Since Obama: The Rise of Market Fundamentalism
- My Appearance on the O'Reilly Factor
- In the Rand Archive, Part 6: On the Brandens, Continued
- Money in Politics: A Case Study from 1948
- 2009: The Year of Rand
- A question about Howard Zinn
- Bookplates: Personalize your copy of Goddess of the Market!
- In the Rand Archive, Part 5: On the Brandens
- In the Rand Archive, Part 4: What Will Happen Next?
- Top Three Questions about my interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
- Book Tour video
- In the Rand Archives, Part 3: Publishing
- In the Rand Archives, Part 2: The edited letters and diaries
- In the Rand Archives, Part 1: Gaining Access
- Libertarian Squishiness: Or Why the Right is Not Conservative
- Thoughts on the literary present as it relates to Ayn Rand
- Ayn Rand heart Farrah Fawcett
- Is Obama the next FDR?
- Classic Books about Reconstruction