Let's say you're a history blogger who has written 10 essays on modern US history post-civil war, and 10 on post-Mao China...
I'm talking more about non-academic 'big' history of the sort that shapes politics.
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academic history seems mostly narrow and circumscribed to stay away from political action
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Professional historians root themselves in documents/archives. It's rare to be in immediate contact with one's protagonists
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