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Historians/History

January 3, 2015

Thomas Bender: The Changing Role of the Public Intellectual Since World War II (Video)

by Thomas Bender

New York University's Thomas Bender made these remarks as the chair of a panel on "Historians as Public Intellectuals" at the annual meeting of the of the American Historical Association, January 3, 2015.