Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS, is a historian, librarian, journalist, and artist. She has done graduate work in Jewish Education at the Melton Centre of Jewish Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of "Silver Boom! The Rise and Decline of Leadville, Colorado as the United States Silver Capital, 1860–1896," (2008) "On This Day in the History… Of American Independence Significant Events in the Revolutionary Era, 1754-1812" (2020), and "We Used to be Friends? The Long Complicated History of Jews, Blacks, and Antisemitism" (2020).
Her research area is modern Jewish history, American and Canadian Jewish history, Jews in colonial and early America, Civil War, and Reconstruction America, specifically examining whiteness, race, and anti-Jewish prejudice (antisemitism). Recently, her profile has consistently been in the top two percent of all writers on the scholarly social media site Academia.edu, where she has nearly 15,000 views, and the same on ResearchGate, and close to 200,000 views on Medium. Her essays and research have been used as teaching materials in high schools, cited, and referenced by college students and professors at some of the top universities.
She has a BA in History and Art History and a Master's in Library and Information Studies from McGill University. She has done graduate work in Jewish history at Concordia University as part of the MA in Judaic Studies, where she focused on Medieval and modern Judaism. She received the Canadian Jewish Studies Institute Fellowship two years in a row and the Romek Hornstein Memorial Award. Her research area is North American Jewish history, particularly Southern Jewish history. Her thesis was entitled "Unconditional Loyalty to the Cause: Southern Whiteness, Jewish Women, and Anti-Semitism, 1860-1913," and completed as "Unconditional Loyalty to the Cause: Jews, Whiteness, and Anti-Semitism in the Civil War South, 1840-1913."
Ms. Goodman regularly wrote for Examiner.com for three years, from June 2013 until the publication closed in July 2016. She wrote over 1,100 articles reporting on American, Canadian, and Israeli politics, general breaking news, universities, education, and Judaism. She is the editor of History Musings: History, News, & Politics, which covers history news. An archive of her articles can be found at Academic Buzz Network: http://academicbuzznetwork.wordpress.com/. She is an expert on college admissions and, for many years, covered global, American, and Canadian university and college rankings and the admissions statistics of Ivy League universities.
Ms. Goodman was also the former Editor/Features Editor for the History News Network (HNN) (George Mason University) and worked for HNN from 2004–2010. She was the editor of some of the online magazine's popular features. She was also the news section contributor for Military History and Vietnam Magazines alternately from 2006-2008. She has also contributed to several reference publications. She contributed the overviews and chronologies for each election year in "History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008," 4th edition, edited by Gil Troy, Fred L. Israel, and Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Facts on File, Inc. 2011). Her contributions to the History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2008, have had over 400,000 views on the blog https://presidentialcampaignselectionsreference.wordpress.com/. She has also contributed the bibliographies for "The Encyclopedia of the Cold War: a Political, Social, and Military History," edited by Spencer Tucker (ABC CLIO, 2007), and "The Home Front Encyclopedia: United States, Britain, And Canada in World Wars I and II," edited by James D. Ciment and Thaddeus Russell, (ABC-CLIO, 2006).
Ms. Goodman currently blogs at Medium, where she was a top writer in history (July to December 2018 and July 2020). She regularly writes on "On This Day in History (#OTD in #History) Feature and on the Times of Israel. Her article "OTD in History… October 19, 1796, Alexander Hamilton accuses Thomas Jefferson of having an affair with his slave, creating a 200-year-old controversy over Sally Hemings" that went viral in July 2020 and had nearly 100,000 views.
Ms. Goodman's scholarly articles can be found on Academia.edu, where she is also a top writer; she has been in the top 2 percentile of all scholars on the site (2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023). In the fall of 2022, her "Silver Boom! The Rise and Decline of Leadville, Colorado as the United States Silver Capital, 1860–1896," was in the top 2 percentile of all papers on the site, while her "McGill University's Complicated History of Antisemitism and Now anti-Zionism" reached the top 3 in Summer 2022. She has been cited in many books and journal articles, including J. Michael Lennon's Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013) and Jared Cohen's New York Times bestseller Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America (2019).
