Beaumont Kin is a good example of how those within the profession should embrace the activist historian mantle in our own time and in our own, very real world.
Your demand that we live in an equitable society grounded in a sound understanding of the ways historic inequalities continue to shape the present gives us hope for a brighter future. Thank you!
Our work as historians involves studying prior forms of exploitation, abuse, and inequality. Doing this work, we believe, requires that we struggle against their iterations in the present.