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Isabel Naquin contends with her family history after visiting the Houmas House’s Great River Road Museum.

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SEPTEMBER 2024 | SCRIPT AND SCRIPTURE

Texts are part of the backbone of the historical discipline. Some have been read and reinterpreted for millennia, inspiring art around the globe, as Luke Clossey, Kyle Jackson, and Isaac Schoeber found. Others are handwritten and could be more ephemeral, if we don’t put in the work to learn to read them, as Bonnie J. Morris argues. Scraps of paper can be kept for centuries within a community, as in the “Convent Tabla.” And others are preserved by the essential work of archives, as “The Long Conference” highlighted. But whether you have rediscovered a source or are revisiting a classic, you could uncover something new.

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Perspectives on History is the newsmagazine of the American Historical Association and is the principal source for news and information about the discipline of history. Since 1962, Perspectives has cultivated the community of historians and promoted our work by publishing articles and commentary on all aspects of the historical discipline. The print magazine and its website showcase work by historians working in various professional settings.

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