Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS, is a historian, journalist, librarian, educator, artist, and memoirist. She holds a Diploma of Collegial Studies in Communications: Art, Media, and Theatre, specializing in Fine Arts and Jewish Studies, from Vanier College, as well as a B.A. in History and Art History and an MLIS from McGill University. She pursued graduate study in Judaic Studies at Concordia University and Jewish Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Melton Centre. More recently, she undertook advanced training in drawing, painting, and sculpture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and participated in the 2025 Studio of Her Own professional development program for artists in Israel.
She contributed to the landmark reference work History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2008 (2011), edited by Gil Troy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., and Fred L. Israel, and is the author of On This Day in History…: Significant Events in the American Year (2024) and My Jerusalem Life, Interrupted: A Diary of a Teacher in Israel: Aliyah, Art, and the Year Everything Cracked (2026). A former Features Editor at the History News Network, where she launched influential series such as Top Young Historians and History Doyens, Goodman also worked as a political reporter at Examiner.com, covering U.S. politics, universities, religion, and culture.
Her writing bridges historical scholarship, personal witness, and public engagement, focusing on American political history, Jewish identity, education, memory, and culture. Her recent research and essays have appeared in The Jerusalem Report, The Times of Israel, and History News Network. Through both her writing and visual art, Goodman illuminates the continuities between the Jewish past and present and explores how memory and creativity shape national, cultural, and spiritual identity.
