Natalie Zemon Davis Shows How to Read a Primary Source

This is fascinating.

Watch a master historian make sense of a seventeenth-century Dutch inventory. This interview was conducted as part of an exhibit on Margrieta van Varick at the New York Historical Society.

Thanks to Karen Kupperman for calling this to my attention.

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