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..

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google woul….

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library..

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st..

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involv….

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was ….

The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and ….

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditiona….

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Librarie….

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..

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..

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought..

Digital data are more fragile than printed material..