![]() ![]() Fuentes’ new book, Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive is so significant. And yet, try looking for the word “archive” or “archival knowledge” in the index of most books and the result might be surprising.Īmong other things, it’s for this reason that historian Marisa J. Monographs always provide a list of consulted repositories, which for early American history can often read like a top ten greatest hits of national and state archives. Despite the popularity of that book, however, historians still rarely discuss their archival methodology. There is also no shortage of books and articles critical of the construction of colonial archives, perhaps the most famous among them being historian Ann Laura Stoler’s Along the Archival Grain. Near or far, we need those repositories to craft historical narratives about past worlds. ![]() It should go without saying that the historical profession depends on archives. ![]()
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