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The Inventory Room

by Arlette Farge,Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton,

By Arlette Farge, from The Allure of the Archives, published this month for the first time in English by Yale University Press. Farge is a historian of eighteenth-century France and…

A conspiracy of dunces

by Harper’s Staff,

I

by Jack Hitt,

End game

Five million documents

by Russell Lynes,

Mountains of paper

by Roger Burlingame,

A glimpse of “Seventy-six”

by Charles D. (Charles Dunham) Deshler,

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The Inventory Room

A conspiracy of dunces

I

Five million documents

Mountains of paper

A glimpse of “Seventy-six”

July 1874

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