France Honors Historian Who Died Resisting Nazi Rule

Historian Marc Bloch was executed by the Gestapo in 1944. On June 16, France placed him in the Panthéon—its highest honor for the dead—82 years later. France recognized both his groundbreaking work in history and his resistance to Nazis. Bloch believed scholars had failed to prepare France; his honor raises the same question today: what do experts owe democracy in dangerous times?