The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America Robert S. McElvaine (born January 24, 1947) is Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and the author of eight books and the editor of three.

His latest book, The Times They Were a-Changin’ – 1964: The Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn,[1] was published by Arcade (distributed by Simon & Schuster) in June 2022.

In The New York Times Book Review, Morris Dickstein wrote "It would be hard to find a fairer or more balanced account of how the American people and their leaders learned to grapple with their greatest economic crisis.

His findings, sometimes called the McElvaine Thesis, were first published in his 2001 book, Eve's Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History, which a starred review in Publishers’ Weekly called “a radical rethinking of the basic ‘truths’ on which cultures have been constructed.” It was hailed by a wide variety of scholars and writers, ranging from feminist writer Betty Friedan through such historians as William H. McNeill, Joyce Appleby, and Carl Degler to sociobiologists Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and E.O.

A review in the Los Angeles Times Book Review called Eve’s Seed “a bestseller waiting to be discovered.”[9] That publication later named it one of the “Best Books of 2001.”[9] McElvaine's views on the primacy of misunderstandings of the sexes in human history were featured in an article in the Arts and Ideas section of the New York Times and in a profile in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Times They Were a-Changin’ – 1964: The Year the Sixties Arrived and the Battle Lines of Today Were Drawn[1] (Arcade, distributed by Simon & Schuster, 2022) weaves together the political, social, cultural, sexual, racial, economic and foreign policy (i.e., Vietnam) threads of what the author calls “the Long 1964,” from the John F. Kennedy assassination in late 1963 through mid-1965 to bring back to life one of the most revolutionary periods in American history.

He argues that the struggle that threatens the survival of American democracy in the 2020s is fundamentally about whether to preserve and build upon the progressive changes that began in 1964 or to “take America back” to the time before 1964 when the United States was largely still “a white man’s country.”[1] McElvaine's essays and opinion pieces appear frequently in such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, New York Times Book Review, Newsweek, National Public Radio, The Nation, New York Daily News, NBC Think, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Monthly, Huff Post, Chronicle Review, Christian Century, America, Medium, and Daily Kos.