RE GREAT HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP QUOTATION

"My idea of a historian involves the broadest possible knowledge of at least several centuries of the past, which in turn allows one to put any given era in a broader context and draw some meaningful conclusions about its particular characteristics that intelligent lay people will find intersting. No one knows better than myself that that is not a marketable skill in today's American universities."

Borrowed verbatim from David Kaiser's great site. Great poignant quote.

Deserves to be reprised here and elsewhere.