To the editor:
This is a brief note about Robert Townsend’s annual “Profile of the History Profession.” The profile does not include our public history colleagues working in museums, historic sites, archives, consultancies, and elsewhere. I would love to see them included in this annual snapshot. Until then, a more appropriate title is “Profile of the History Professoriate.”
Robert Townsend writes: I am quite abashed, and particularly so since my forthcoming book is devoted to dispelling precisely this sort of error. Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where I dashed off a headline as I started writing and only reflected on it again when I opened the issue and looked at it in print. Mea culpa.
David Hochfelder
University at Albany