| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131.1

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Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890–1970. By Ian Tyrell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii, 348p. Notes, index. Cloth, $57; paper, $23.)

Ian Tyrell, professor of history at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has traced the manner and mode in which American historians (i.e., professional, university-based academicians holding the PhD) have engaged the public since the turn of the twentieth century. Beginning with the founding of the American Historical Association, Tyrell found that each succeeding generation of historians expressed to one degree or another a sense of diminishing influence or cachet and, despite history remaining "a critical part of American public discourse," historians themselves perpetually "claim to be marginalized by this discourse" (p. 2).

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