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sources of historical knowledge that have been insufficiently exploited? |
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images
as sources Lynn Hunt, 5-31-03, 5:48 PM |
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RE: images as sources Wayne
Hanley, 6-6-03, 9:29 AM |
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RE: Images as Sources (June
22, 2003) Barbara Day-Hickman, 6-22-03,
4:40 PM |
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reading
images Lynn Hunt, 6-23-03, 10:44 PM |
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historical knowledge Vivian
Cameron, 7-5-03,
5:15 PM |
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Some belated comments Warren
Roberts, 7-9-03,
10:53 AM |
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A postscript Warren
Roberts 7-9-03, 11:28 AM |
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More on images as sources Joan
B. Landes, 7-12-03,
2:33 PM |
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RE: More on images as
sources Vivian Cameron
7-26-03, 4:22 PM |
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A postscript |
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Warren Roberts |
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7-9-03, 11:28
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Images sometimes lead to misunderstanding. One example
is Prieur’s “Arrest of the King at Varennes.” Prieur
shows a crowd breaking into an inn where the King,
the Queen, and their retinue are seated at a table
having an evening meal. The illustration is wrong in
all ways; what Prieur shows never happened. Yet this
image has been included often in histories of the Revolution,
sometimes without explanation and needed corrections.
Some historians have paid so little attention to images
that when they include illustrations in their books
they sometimes, in effect, misinform their readers.
One might even say that they dispense false knowledge. |
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