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Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by Washington Post

Drawing on interviews with her last surviving friends and relatives

and the feeling that humanity is so small

Contesting Archives: Social research & statistics saving a plate for A-m&#225The contributors of Contesting Archives challenge the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a place where decisions are made about whose documents and therefore whose history is important. Finding that women's voices and their texts were often obscured or lost altogether, they have developed many new methodologies for creating unique archives and uncovering