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How to Get Your Op Ed Published

Jonathan Zimmerman was interviewed on April 17, 2015 at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. A well-known professor, he is celebrated for writing more op eds than probably any other living historian. We wanted to know what the secret of his success is.