Taylor M. Moore (Author)
Cowles, Henry M. (Author)
Ramalingam, Chitra (Author)
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Volume: 53
Issue: 1
Pages: 71-72
Archives are powerful. On this, at least, historians agree. But when it comes to why they are so powerful and how that power should be used, a great deal is up for debate. Some see the archive as the bedrock of empirical work; if not objective, the archive is as close as we can get to a shared source base from which to tell authoritative histories. To others, the archive’s power is wielded by those who assemble and oversee it—sometimes, against those whose names and lives appear within its boxes. Archives are fetishized and feared, at times by the same people; their boundaries can be policed with vigor or rendered porous through critique. But at the end of the day, they are powerful—and that is what keeps people coming back year after year, attempting to draw out their secrets or tear down their walls. It is almost harder to imagine history without the archive than to imagine a world without history.
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Article Ashanti Shih (2023) Talking Story with the Archives. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 102-105).
Article Elyse Semerdjian (2023) Archival Wounds. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 97-101).
Article Zoé Samudzi (2023) Haunted by Denial. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 94-96).
Article Amrah Salomón J. (2023) Drawing on the Difuentes. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 91-93).
Article Taylor M. Moore (2023) The Cool Air. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 86-90).
Article Elise A. Mitchell (2023) On Slavery, Medicine, Speculation, and the Archive. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 82-85).
Article Aja M. Lans (2023) Bioarchaeology of the Self. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 79-81).
Article Rosanna Dent (2023) Stolen Masks. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 76-78).
Article Eram Alam (2023) Citing the Unsaid. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 73-75).
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