Daniel Greene
Daniel Greene is Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University and a Subject Matter Expert at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). In his 30 years as a public historian, Greene has curated exhibitions, created and hosted a museum podcast series, and consulted on multiple exhibitions and documentary films. Greene also has served in leadership roles, including as President of the Newberry Library, Chicago. He holds a BA in history from Wesleyan University and PhD in history from the University of Chicago.
Daniel Greene has worked in museums and educational institutions for 30 years. His public history projects delve into the complexities of U.S. history, while also confronting the history of antisemitism and other forms of prejudice.
FEATURED WORK & CORE COMPETENCIES
Curated exhibitions:
Americans and the Holocaust (USHMM, 2018–26, traveling to 100 libraries nationwide, 2022–26)
A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (USHMM, 2007–18)
Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North (Newberry Library, 2013, co-curator)
Honest Abe of the West (Newberry Library, 2009)
Advisor and/or appearances on documentary films:
World War II with Tom Hanks (History Channel, 2026)
The U.S. and the Holocaust, directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein (PBS, 2022)
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip, directed by Ben Loeterman (PBS American Experience, 2020)
Author and editor of scholarly books:
Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader, co-edited with Edward Phillips (Rutgers, 2022)
Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North, co-author (University of Chicago, 2013)
The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (Indiana, 2011)
Greene has curated multiple exhibitions, including Americans and the Holocaust, which opened in 2018 to commemorate the USHMM’s 25th anniversary. That exhibition inspired The U.S. and the Holocaust, an Emmy-winning documentary film directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein that premiered on PBS in 2022.
Greene also curated a traveling version of Americans and the Holocaust in cooperation with the American Library Association. The traveling exhibition will have visited 100 libraries across the United States between 2022 and 2026.
Greene’s writing has focused on Holocaust history and education as well as topics in American history. His first book, The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (Indiana, 2011), won the American Jewish Historical Society's Saul Viener Prize for best book in American Jewish history in 2012.
Greene serves on the Academic Advisory Council for the Tree of Life site in Pittsburgh. He’s helping to conceive an exhibition there that educates audiences about contemporary antisemitism. Greene also serves on the Executive Committee of the Academic Council for the American Jewish Historical Society. He has consulted for multiple museums and humanities organizations, including the National World War II Museum, New Orleans, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY.