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We all have a mental image of the historian: tweed jacket, book-lined office, tenured professorship. But that image matches only about twelve percent of professional historians. The rest work in museums, government agencies, intelligence analysis, corporate archives, documentary filmmaking, and even tech companies. In this episode, we use Simon Sebag Montefiore's *Jerusalem* as a springboard to explore what historians actually do, the tension between narrative and nuance, and why historical thinking is a transferable skill set that's desperately needed in unexpected places.