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Checkout quotes by Robert Darnton on History
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‟ We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.
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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 arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
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‟ As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.
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‟ When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
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