"Standing Up in a Canoe": Historians' Unsteady Place in a Public World

<p>This essay reflects on Baick’s efforts to occupy what is often an unsteady position of a historian in the rough waters of the public sphere. From teaching teachers to talking to civic groups to media interviews, he has spent most of his academic career pursuing the role of a public intellec...

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Main Author: John S. Baick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/64s9z15k