Jake Lundberg is appointed as The Atlantic's first in-house historian and archivist, joining from the University of Notre Dame. His new role aims to combat cultural amnesia by utilizing The Atlantic's extensive archives. Drew Goins is appointed as a senior editor coming from The Washington Post, where he created the Today's Opinions newsletter. He will focus on strategies to improve reader engagement. Both appointments reflect The Atlantic's commitment to historical knowledge and relationships with its readership.
The creation of a special staff writer role for an Atlantic historian has been a goal of mine for many years. One reason this role took so long to fill is that we were inundated with interest and were forced to plough through an enormous number of candidates.
A friend of mine, a former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S., says that America is the only place on Earth where the expression ‘That's history’ means, ‘That's irrelevant.’ He is, unfortunately, correct.
We suffer as a nation and as a culture because we don't know where we come from or how we got here. It's extraordinarily important, particularly now, to fight against the forces of willed amnesia and pernicious propaganda.
Ammunition for this fight can be found in The Atlantic's 168-year-old archives. Jake is a great person to unearth the insights within them.
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