What attracts historians to the archives?  How do we experience them?  How do they shaper our work?  Over the last two weeks, the 395 seminar at UR has been talking about the experience and politics of the archive.  We read Arlette Farge’s Allure of the Archives.  (Here’s a review by the historian Robert Darnton).  We’ve also been reading and thinking about “archive stories” and how archival practices shape us as historians.  More soon…