Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, former president of the American Historical Association, and author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Telling the Truth about History. She lives in Los Angeles.

Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, former president of the American Historical Association, and author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Telling the Truth about History. She lives in Los Angeles.

Books by Lynn Hunt

  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

    Lynn Hunt

    Paperback, 2008

    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
  • Writing History in the Global Era

    Lynn Hunt

    Hardback, 2014

    With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
  • Writing History in the Global Era

    Lynn Hunt

    Paperback, 2015

    With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

    Lynn Hunt

    E Book, 2008

    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
  • Writing History in the Global Era

    Lynn Hunt

    E Book, 2014

    With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
  • Telling the Truth about History

    Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob

    Paperback, 1995

    "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a...
  • Telling the Truth about History

    Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob

    E Book, 2011

    "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a...