Period of crisis like that of the pandemic give point to the question: What is academic history good for? The current state of the job market for history and the humanities makes answering this question more important than ever.
This collection of articles, essays, and interviews from The Chronicle Review addresses the grim question of what place history has in academe, and expands on the ethical responsibility of history-writing.
It includes a rich, ambitious essay by Stanford's Priya Satia, an in-depth profile of Yale's Timothy Snyder, and conversations with Jill Lepore, Francis Fukuyama, Brandon Byrd, and more. You'll also get an annotated syllabus on "Ten Works of Intellectual History That Changed My Mind" from Alexander Bevilacqua, winner of the American History Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for The Republic of Arabic Letters.
