Mark Weber -- historian, lecturer, author and current affairs analyst -- is director of the Institute for Historical Review, an independent, public interest educational center based in southern California that works to promote peace, understanding and justice through greater public awareness of the past, and especially socially-politically relevant aspects of twentieth-century history.
Weber has appeared as a guest on numerous radio talk shows – for example on the Barry Farber and Bob Grant shows in New York, and with Bill Handel in Los Angeles. He's also made numerous television appearances, including as a guest on the “Hannity and Colmes” and “Montel Williams” shows. He's conducted numerous interviews with television, radio and print journalists from across the United States, and from many overseas countries.
He is the author of many articles, reviews, and essays dealing with historical, political, and social issues, which have appeared in a variety of periodicals, and in a range of languages.
Weber was born in Portland, Oregon, where he was also raised. He studied at the University of Illinois (Chicago), the University of Munich (Germany), and Portland State University, from where he received a Bachelor's degree in history (with high honors). He did graduate work in history at Indiana University (Bloomington), where he served as a history instructor and received a Master's degree in European history.
Weber is a vigorous defender of Internet freedom of speech. In Dec. 1998 and again in Oct. 2000 he testified on this issue at hearings of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
In 1988 he testified for five days in Toronto District Court as a recognized expert witness on Germany’s World War II "Final Solution" policy and the Holocaust issue.
Weber has been director of the IHR since 1995, and for nine years was editor of the Institute’s Journal of Historical Review.
Tel. 714-593-9725 – Fax: 714-593-9731
E-mail: weber@ihr.org
