Who writes The Devil of History? Stephen Shapiro is an acquiring editor in scholarly publishing and a (recovering) historian who lives and works in Toronto. The author of four books for children or young adults, he received his PhD in history from Ohio State University in 2011.
Why “The Devil of History”? When I started this blog, I was annoyed by the frequency with which I read allusions to Walter Benjamin’s description of the Angel of History. What would the opposite of the Angel of History be? The devil, of course. The idea seemed a lot less funny a few months later, but by then I was stuck.
The Devil of History 