Michael Koncewicz

Michael Koncewicz is the Associate Director at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Koncewicz is a political historian who previously worked for the National Archives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, contributing to the museum’s nonpartisan Watergate exhibit. More recently, at NYU’s Tamiment Library, he curated the archive’s Cold War collections and managed its Center for the United States and the Cold War. His first book, They Said ‘No’ to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power was published by the University of California Press in 2018. He is working on an authorized biography of longtime progressive activist Tom Hayden, and has taught US history and public history courses at New York University and Hunter College.

Postcards

A Postcard from Ann Arbor, Michigan

By Michael Koncewicz | September 20, 2023

Ann Arbor was the New Left’s primary incubator for the movement’s leading activists.

Features

All the Presidents’ Librarians

By Michael Koncewicz | July 19, 2019

Despite being spied on and intimidated during my time in Yorba Linda, I still think presidential libraries are too important for historians to wash their hands of them.