> I will push back a bit on "professionals are doing everything they can to communicate effectively". I don't think that's really true. For personal reasons, I

> I will push back a bit on "professionals are doing everything they can to communicate effectively". I don't think that's really true. For personal reasons, I am very good friends with an unusually large number of history faculty. I do not agree with your assessment at all. My experience is that historians are desperately trying to communicate their expertise in the face of an increasingly hostile culture that either does not value their expertise or considers them to be propagandists. Public History in particular is having a renaissance right now and Digital History (which is often tightly associated with widespread distribution of tools and interactive systems) is comparatively well funded. History doesn't have the same "publish or perish" model as say CS because individual journal articles don't actually provide much professional clout. You do have the publish the book (which are increasingly distributed open-access) but there is ample time for communication with laypeople (and teaching).