Question

what is the practical value of history​

Answer 1

Explanation:

What is the “practical value of history”? This was the framing question of J. Samuel Walker’s Roger R. Trask Lecture delivered at the annual meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) on April 13. Walker, who’s the former historian of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the author of several acclaimed books on the history of nuclear power, argued that historians must answer this question if they are to survive the never-ending austerity that the profession faces. When finding efficiencies and cost-cutting are the name of the game, Walker argued, it’s imperative that historians who work in the federal government answer this question—their very jobs might depend upon it.