Donald Nieman

Donald G. Nieman is an authority on modern US law and politics and professor of history and provost emeritus at Binghamton University—State University of New York. His most recent book, The Path to Paralysis: How Our Politics Became Nasty, Dysfunctional, and a Threat to the Republic will be published by Anthem Press in October 2024. He is the author and editor of many other books, including Promises to Keep: African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776-Present, an influential history of civil rights in the US now in its second edition. His op-eds on contemporary American politics have appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, Huffington Post, and Salon, to name a few. His research has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and New York University School of Law.