In order to become a history teacher, I had to get a master’s degree in education. I was required to take a minimum of five graduate-level history classes in the history department as part of it. I was transitioning from being a lawyer. Professors would talk about checking citations (although not systematically) but it was more for the purpose of finding useful material you want to use, not to check how they are bein…
> Suffice to say, I got the message And this is at least part of why I don't do well in academia (and, tbf, many other settings); I refuse to get the message.
Had I been a history graduate student, on the other hand, I very well have fought that fight, because it represents a significant problem in the field of academic history.