The history profession has plenty of questions to grapple with right now. Between those on the right who want it to accentuate America’s uniqueness and greatness and those on the left who want it to emphasize America’s failings and blind spots, how should historians tell the nation’s story? What is history’s role in a society with a seriously short attention span? And what can the field do — if anything — to stem the decline in history majors, which, at most recent count, was an…