We history
Not sure whether it was Marc Bloch who said that everyone is a historian; however there are some qualities that made “professional” or at least a trained historian different from those who weren’t trained in the craft of history.
I have the similar discussion with Tian months ago. Grassroots historian and archivest(?) are emerging, along with the blogging and other new formats of online collaboration works. There will be more detail things be recorded with grassroots publishing behaviors. It just like that since microscope was invented by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, people can know more detail things than ever before. The scale of history research will be downsized to minutes in digital age. Andrew Lih mentioned the gap between history book and news, I think we can put “we history” here. It’s just happening every minutes, either in blogging or wiki coauthoring. …