Conversation

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.

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