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Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton
American Historian
Born: May 10, 1939
History People Technology Time World You
Related authors: Carter G. Woodson Daniel J. Boorstin David McCullough Henry Adams James Truslow Adams Robert Fogel Tara Westover Will Durant
It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals. Robert Darnton
Education Internet Digital Enormous Resources Everything Potential Through Simply True Individuals Available Even Now
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. Robert Darnton
History Thought Philosophy Harvard Had Studied Toward Ideas Bias Arrived The History Of Where Formal Literature
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. Robert Darnton
Time History Around Came Very Hit Oxford Notion Hard England Profession Early Below
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian. Robert Darnton
Journalist Spell Soon Discovered Historian Want Wanted Worked Brief
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. Robert Darnton
Word Internet Power Mouth Press Only Had Printing Printing Press Revolutionaries American Word-Of-Mouth Believed
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty. Robert Darnton
Technology Library World Citizen Country Thanks Duty Research Living Every Everyone Our Civic Deliver Fail Text Up Modern Modern Technology Now
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. Robert Darnton
Work Me Research Harvard Libraries Taken Involvement Ventures Historical Electronic Publishing University
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment. Robert Darnton
Myself World Problems Thinking Fathers Philosophers Back Books Find Often Experienced While Confronting Founding Founding Fathers Present Enlightenment
The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak. Robert Darnton
Time Library Property People Speak Digital Some People Long Long Time National Air Danger Has-Been Would Some Idea Feel Been
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. Robert Darnton
Library Important Harvard Clear Schools Make Role Central
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun. Robert Darnton
History You People School Tell High Rigorous Hated High School Give Exciting Course Because Intellectually Fun Expression
Texts are always in flux. Robert Darnton
Flux Always Texts

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