Arthur Herman

Arthur Herman is a historian and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of many books, including Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in WW II and the forthcoming Founder’s Fire: From 1776 to the Age of Trump (April).

Posts by Arthur Herman

February 24, 2026

Who Built the USSR?

(This article appears in the Winter 2026 issue of the Coolidge Review.) One of the epic stories of World War II is how Russian troops held the Stalingrad tractor factory against repeated assaults by German units from August to October 1942. Continue Reading...