How Digital Hobbyists Are Changing Scholarship

By BROCK READ

Historians embrace personal Web projects, but are wary of amateur postings

Over the past six years, Vernon Burton has spent a lot of his time -- "too much

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time," he says -- canvassing libraries, museums, and private collections throughout the Midwest for

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