# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-horne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:30:06.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-horne"
name: "Gerald Horne"
slug: "gerald-horne"
description: "Gerald Horne is an American historian who holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. In 2022, Horne was awarded the American Book Award for his book, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism and Capitalism in the Long 16th Century, which was published by Monthly Review Press in 2020. Horne was also awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023."
tagline: "American historian (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerald_Horne_during_a_2020_book_talk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.01
  momentum:             17.48859835816357
  historical:           4.66966
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6082279/"
    handle:    "nm6082279"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "جيرالد هورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "جيرالد هورن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Horne"
    title: "Gerald Horne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Horne"
    title: "Gerald Horne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gerald_Horne"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5549253"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump