Richard Rubin

Richard Rubin is  a historian and the author of two accounts of America’s involvement in the First World War, The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War, and Back Over There, and a memoir of a year spent in the deep south, Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Travel section and to the Atlantic. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY.