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Are we learning the wrong lessons from history?

  • Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Are we learning the wrong lessons from history?'Peace for our time': British prime minister Neville Chamberlain displaying the Anglo-German declaration, known as the Munich Agreement, in September 1938.Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Can historians influence government policy? Should they? And, if so, what kinds of historical knowledge should they produce?

I suspect policy-makers only rarely think of...

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