Working Historians

Marc Reyes and Bill Black are editors of Contingent Magazine, a non-profit online publication dedicated to the radical idea that historians deserve to be paid for their work. In this episode we discuss their academic and professional backgrounds and also talk about the magazine itself, which invites pitches from all historians that may not fit with more traditional academic history publications. This episode’s recommendations: You’re Wrong About… podcast: https://t.co/h53UhP25ig Kings, Kitchens, and their Stories: https://www.netflix.com/title/80102162 John O’Malley, Urethane Revolution: The Birth of Skate, San Diego 1975 (The History Press, 2019), https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467139908 Karin Wulf, “What Naomi Wolf and Cokie Roberts Teach Us About the Need for Historians,” Washington Post, June 11, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/11/what-naomi-wolf-cokie-roberts-teach-us-about-need-historians/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7da8e60882c7