. >> jane dailey teaches history and at the law school of university of chicago. she is an academic and public historian, and active in the media. let's talk about the intersection of that. where do you get the most attention or reaction to your work? >> they are very different. i guess up until now, the academy. since i've been writing for huffington post, i have gotten more reaction from the people who read those. some of whom are in the academy, but some of -- many of whom are not. >> what does a historians perspective bring to today's policy debates? jane: one thing it brings his knowledge. talk toas historians policymakers, we can say, you don't have to reinvent the wheel here. we've done this. we've done supply side before, for example. we have done creating a regulatory state, or dismantling a regulatory state. we have done things before. i think we also bring different perspectives, meaning sometimes contradictory perspectives. so historians are not always going to agree. if you say, let's ask the u.s. historian about this, we are not all going to say the

. >> jane dailey teaches history and at the law school of university of chicago. she is an academic and public historian, and active in the media. let's talk about the intersection of that. where do you get the most attention or reaction to your work? >> they are very different. i guess up until now, the academy. since i've been writing for huffington post, i have gotten more reaction from the people who read those. some of whom are in the academy, but some of -- many of whom are not. >> what does a historians perspective bring to today's policy debates?