Definitely anything that Laura Leibman has written!

Though technically not historians: Amitav Gosh's The Nutmeg's Curse, and Sara Johnson's Encyclopedie Noire are both stunning takes and writing on hist subjects.

😂 Thanks, Karl--yes, after cutting back...in half.

Thanks, Haim!

Thank you, Jenny! :) I'll...survive these last hours ;)

It'd be great if someone took pics of "endangered" signs and then added on an online map offering "alternative" trails with the scrubbed info. Maybe someone is already doing it, just wanted to put it out there.

😬 😣🫤 💪 Sorry you're subjected to this, Alex...

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Not always, but often some records are deemed too fragile to handle, when actually this is used as a pretext to not make them accessible to users.

The "fragility" of records. 😏

Often used to hamper access...

I can imagine! Your approach is very relevant to one of the chapters of my dissertation, where a young man has been consistently described as "blind"--and maybe he was)--but the words of his father and his lived experience suggest differently. (And will now go back to the chapter to cite you :)).