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   Alexander Karn (xankarn@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 07:34:15 JST Alexander Karn

   Paul Kramer (Vanderbilt) published this in 2017 not long after Trump's first inaugural. The overarching question is still relevant:

   What role [can] historians play in countering authoritarian politics?

   Engaged historians have these three "knacks," according to Kramer:

   1. They disrupt narratives of inevitability.
   2. They excavate lost alternatives.
   3. They exercise our capacity for empathy.

   Worth re-reading.

   #histodons @histodons

   https://www.chronicle.com/article/history-in-a-time-of-crisis/