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Fidel's Child: A Half-Century Doing Latin American History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2015

Richard Graham
Richard Graham*
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin, Austin, Texas
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By no fault of my own I have lived long enough to see many changes in the historical profession, and it may be useful today at this luncheon to look backward a bit over the last half-century and see where we have been. My first thought was that we have moved from carbon copies on onionskin paper and no Xerox machines to the laptop computer. Our writing has not necessarily improved. And mine has not even gotten faster, perhaps because rewriting has become seductively easy. But changes in how we do history and who does history dwarf the importance of such technologies.

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2011 CLAH Luncheon Address
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The Americas , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , July 2011 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 2011

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1. Elsewhere he expressed the view that women were incapable of competing intellectually with men. Personal communication from John F. Schwaller, January 20, 2011.

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