Caroline Winterer is an American historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University. Previously the director of the Stanford Humanities Center, she received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of the American Ingenuity Award, Smithsonian Institution, for mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin.

An in-depth look at the rise and fall of Rome