Professors Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson are calling on the next U.S. president to create a Council of Historical Advisers that would tackle present problems by looking to the past.
Trying to take down a terrorist group? The council would scour historical records to find similar groups, and then analyze which strategies worked against them.
Facing a financial crisis? The council would glean lessons from past meltdowns and report their findings to the president.
"I think there would be more than enough work for a council of applied historians," said Allison, a professor of government and director of Harvard's Belfer Center, a university think tank.
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