Richard L. Kagan - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States

Richard L. Kagan, Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor Emeritus of History and Academy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of The Inquisition’s Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024), the first biography of Lea since 1931. He is the author of several books, including Lucrecia’s Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain (University of California Press, 1990), Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (Yale University Press, 2000), Clio & the Crown: The Politics of History in Medieval and Early Modern Spain (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), and The Spanish Craze: America’s Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779-1939 (University of Nebraska Press, 2019).