September 5, 2003

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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