Over at the blog of the Historical Society, Randall Stephens reports on the Second Annual Conference on Public Intellectuals. Here was the makeup of the first session:
HISTORIANS AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
Chair: Jill Lepore (Harvard University)
Bertram Wyatt-Brown (Johns Hopkins University), “C. Vann Woodward and W.J. Cash: Similarities and Contrasts”
Joyce Antler (Brandeis University), “Gerda Lerner, Citizen-Scholar: ‘Why What We Do with History Matters’”
Ray Arsenault (University of South Florida), “The Freedom Writer: John Hope Franklin as a Public Intellectual”
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