About the Author

Francis X. Blouin, Jr. is Professor of History and Director of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. William G. Rosenberg is Professor of History, University of Michigan.

Reviews

This book lets the secret out: archives are prisms of the past, shaping narratives historians mistakenly think they themselves create.... No student of the past can afford to neglect the issues raised by this book. - Jay Winter, European University Institute