A collection of essays, forums, and interviews originally appearing in Historically speaking.
Introduction: Historians' audiences / Donald A. Yerxa
pt. 1. On historians
The World War II generation of historians / William Palmer
History's past and present / Ellen Fitzpatrick
The historian as VIP / Daniel Snowman
Historians and the public : premature obituaries, abiding laments / Eric Arnesen
pt. 2. On the American historical profession in the twenty-first century
The future of the profession / Bruce Kuklick
Ain't it awful? You bet. It always is / Leo P. Ribuffo
Comment on Kuklick / Marc Trachtenberg
pt. 3. On writing history for the general public
The perils and pleasures of going "popular"; or, My life as a loser / Maureen Ogle
Practicing history without a license / Adam Hochschild
Response to Hochschild / H.W. Brands
Response to Hochschild / John Demos
Response to Hochschild / Joseph J. Ellis
Response to Hochschild / John Ferling
Response to Hochschild / Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Response to Hochschild / Thomas Fleming
Response to Hochschild : a correspondence / James Goodman and Louis P. Masur
Response to Hochschild / John Lukacs
Response to Hochschild / Joyce Lee Malcolm
Response to Hochschild / Wilfred M. McClay
Response to Hochschild / Greg Neale
Response to Hochschild / Joyce Seltzer
Response to Hochschild / Barry Strauss
Response to Hochschild / Derek Wilson
Response to Hochschild / John Wilson
Response to Hochschild / Jay Winik
A reply / Adam Hochschild.
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