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. theess up until now, academy. since i've been writing for huffington post, i have gotten more reaction from the people who read those. summer and the academy but many are not. >> what

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. theess up until now, academy. since i've been writing for huffington post, i have gotten more reaction from the people who read those. summer and the academy but many are not. a historians perspective bring to today's policy debates? >> one thing is knowledge. as a store in policymakers they can say, we don't have two reinvent the wheel. we've done this. we've done supply side before, for example. dismantling the regulatory state, we have done things before. different also bring perspectives, meaning sometimes contradictory perspectives. so historians are not always going to agree. we not always going to say the same thing which i think is probably helpful to policy makers so maybe the perception or rap about historians and larger society might be they tend to be more progressive or left o