Godfrey Hodgson (1 February 1934  – 27 January 2021) was an English journalist and historian who covered and studied American politics and civil society.

Through his work he covered America from the 1960s through the 2000s, spanning the civil rights movement, establishment of the liberal consensus, and the rising global and domestic conservatism.

His mother suffered multiple sclerosis when he was young, and he contracted osteomyelitis at the age of two leaving him with a disfigured arm.

[1] He completed his masters from University of Pennsylvania on a scholarship and wrote his thesis on the English civil war.

[1][2][3] During this time in the United States, Hodgson covered several events including the civil rights movement, protests in the universities, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the presidency of Lyndon B.

[1] His book America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon (1976), considered a landmark study by historians, spanned the period from after the Second World War through Nixon's presidency and documented America's rise of liberal values.

[1][6] In his later years, and in books including World Turned Right Side Up (1996) and More Equal Than Others (2004), he explained the forces behind the rise of global and domestic conservatism.