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Collections: How Your History Gets Made

Bret Devereaux · 9 Jul 2020 · acoup.blog ↗

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  1. Our reading

    The point of academic history is to put historical knowledge into the public’s hands so that the public can make better decisions with it.

    Their wordsI am going to contend that the primary purpose of the discipline of history is to foster greater historical knowledge in the public, in order that the public can use that knowledge (and the skills that come with it) to make better decisions.
    Interesting

  2. Our reading

    The best-known popular history books are usually not written by the best historians in their fields, because writing popular history does not earn academic advancement.

    Their wordspop history will not get you tenure, which leads to neglect in the academy and consequently the big pop-history books are often not written by the best historians in their fields.
    Interesting