Historian

==="Amateur" historians===
[[C. Vann Woodward]] (1908–1999), Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, cautioned that the academicians had themselves abdicated their role as storytellers:<blockquote>Professionals do well to apply the term "amateur" with caution to the historian outside their ranks. The word does have deprecatory and patronizing connotations that occasionally backfire. This is especially true of narrative history, which nonprofessionals have all but taken over. The gradual withering of the narrative impulse in favor of the analytical urge among professional academic historians has resulted in a virtual abdication of the oldest and most honored role of the historian, that of storyteller. Having abdicated... the professional is in a poor position to patronize amateurs who fulfill the needed function he has abandoned.<ref>C. Vann Woodward, "The Great American Butchery", ''New York Review of Books'' (March 6, 1975) [https://nybooks.com/articles/1975/03/06/the-great-american-butchery/ online].</ref></blockquote>