The Social Responsibilities of the Historian

The Responsibility of intellectuals Redux

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In his presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1949, Conyers Read gave American Academics their marching orders to conform to the doctrinal system in the U.S.:

 

The responsibility of the historian is solely to posterity.