HOW DID WE GET HERE? To bring more context to coverage of what's happening now, journalists increasingly are looking to what happened then.

The article offers information on the line between history and journalism and efforts of journalists regarding history. Topics discussed include growing acknowledgment that journalists and historians toil in the same field; views of American journalist Ron Suskind and Heather Cox Richardson, an American historian and Professor of History, on issue; and also mentions about the election and what it meant in terms of American history.