How do we decide what counts as history? Well, there’s the first draft, journalism — the stories the media tells about the events of the day. And then there are the endless subsequent iterations, mined from primary sources and dusted off and polished by historians into arguments and narratives that shape our understanding of the world. Then there’s a third option, one that is made possible by the deluge of electronic records kept in the second half of the 20th century, and tools of modern...
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