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An Encomium to Richard Raack, Historian-Filmmaker

Film & History has known Richard Raack for twenty years, beginning our relations with him in the late 1960s when "The Historian as Filmmaker" theme was very popular at American Historical Association meetings. Both Richard Raack, and his colleague, Patrick Griffin, were the center of much discussion because of their historian-made documentary entitled Goodbye Billy: America Goes to War, 19171918 (1972). This short historical compilation ignited considerable excitement because of the philosophical position behind the film—that historians should wrest the