Historian: ritual and culture, fraternal groups, symbols in culture, art, politics, etc. Writer of textbooks, college educator.

Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.

Author of DOPESICK and of the forthcoming PAPER GIRL, a reported memoir about my search for family and home in a fractured America (out 10.7.25). Find me on Substack.

Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. https://contrarian.substack.com/

A beagle dad trying to be good in a small city in flyover country.

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