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Robert Darnton

American

May 10, 1939

Historian

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Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

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The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

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The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

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I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want.

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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.

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