Thomas Kohut is the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History Emeritus at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he taught for nearly forty years. He has a PhD in History from the University of Minnesota and is a graduate of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. From 2000 to 2006, Kohut served as the Dean of the Faculty at Williams. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts for nearly twenty years. He is currently a member of the Council of Scholars, which advises the Erikson Institute at Riggs. He is also President of the Freud Foundation US, which supports the work of the Freud Museum in Vienna. Kohut has published three books: Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership (OUP, 1991), A German Generation: An Experiential History of the Twentieth Century (Yale, 2012), and, most recently, Empathy and the Historical Understanding of the Human Past (Routledge, 2020). He has also published articles on topics ranging from the German humorist Wilhelm Busch to letters written by German soldiers surrounded at Stalingrad during World War II. In addition, he has written a number of articles on history, psychoanalysis, and psycho-history.