A Marriage Made in History

Two historians married to each other seems an instant opportunity for caricature, an invitation to disciplinary and institutional clichés.

They didn't swear, "I do!," you imagine, but "I do — notwithstanding a variety of complicating factors that bear mentioning." Amorous instincts possibly play second fiddle to archival impulses. The union's stability may depend on adequate supportive evidence, rather than faith, loyalty, passion, or love.

Normally our ability to peer

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