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What Should Historians Do in a Time of Crisis? (Radical Historians)

Margaret Power is a Professor of History at Illinois Tech and the author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973

She was interviewed by the History News Network's Rick Shenkman on January 6, 2018 at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association after appearing on a roundtable organized by MARHO: The Radical Historians Organization and Historians for Peace and Democracy.  The group was assembled to discuss, "What Should Historians Do in a Time of Crisis?"