“Thomas Bender has written a very instructive essay, Historians in Public. In it, he points out that academics used to be much better represented in mainstream publications, and more often wrote or presented to the general public than they do now. As he points out: ‘While the early graduate schools were committed to advanced research, they sought to educate civic leaders, not future academics’ …” (more)
[Katrina Gulliver, Notes from the Field, 17 July]