Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard. His latest book is Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. (June 2012)
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In Defense of the New York Public Library
June 7, 2012
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Jefferson’s Taper: A National Digital Library
November 24, 2011
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The Wolf Man’s Revenge
June 9, 2011
Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast
by Jay M. Smith
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Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain
April 28, 2011
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How to Use the Internet
February 24, 2011
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Digital Democratic Vistas
December 23, 2010
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The Library: Three Jeremiads
December 23, 2010
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Toward ‘the Digital Public Library of America’: An Exchange
November 25, 2010
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Can We Create a National Digital Library?
October 28, 2010
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Google & the Future of Books: An Exchange
January 14, 2010
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Google and the New Digital Future
December 17, 2009
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Google & Books: An Exchange
March 26, 2009
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Google & the Future of Books
February 12, 2009
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Who Will Digitize the World’s Books?
August 14, 2008
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Google Without Pix
July 17, 2008
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The Library in the New Age
June 12, 2008
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Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia
April 3, 2008
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On Clifford Geertz: Field Notes from the Classroom
January 11, 2007
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It Happened One Night
June 24, 2004
A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
by John Brewer
The Return of Martin Guerre
by Natalie Zemon Davis
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by Iris Chang
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame
by Katsuichi Honda, edited by Frank Gibney
Nanking: Anatomy of an Atrocity
by Masahiro Yamamoto
The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography
edited by Joshua A. Fogel
Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane
by Sarah Farmer
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brassillach
by Alice Kaplan
Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union: Novocherkassk, 1962
by Samuel H. Baron
An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
by James G. Hollandsworth Jr
An Ordinary Atrocity: Sharpeville and Its Massacre
by Philip Frankel
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
by Jan T. Gross
Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934in the American South
by Janet Irons
Contesting the New South Order: The 1914–1915 Strike at Atlanta’s Fulton Mills
by Clifford M. Kuhn
The Meetinghouse Tragedy: An Episode in the Life of a New England Town
by Charles E. Clark
The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
by Linda Gordon
A Poisoned Chalice
by Jeffrey Freedman
The Rule of Justice: The People of Chicago versus Zephyr Davis
by Elizabeth Dale
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News, Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660
by Alastair Bellany
The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: Forgery and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century London
by Donna T. Andrew and Randall McGowen
Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899
by Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell
Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal
by Richard Wightman Fox
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The Heresies of Bibliography
May 29, 2003
Making Meaning: “Printers of the Mind” and Other Essays
by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez
Books and Bibliography: Essays in Commemoration of Don McKenzie
edited by John Thomson
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‘The Great Book Massacre’: An Exchange
March 14, 2002
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Euro State of Mind
February 28, 2002
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‘Scare Tactics’
October 18, 2001
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The Great Book Massacre
April 26, 2001
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Nicholson Baker
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Un-British Activities
April 12, 2001
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Extraordinary Commonplaces
December 21, 2000
Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England
by Kevin Sharpe
Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks edited by J.A. Gere, edited by John Sparrow
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Paris: The Early Internet
June 29, 2000
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Looking the Devil in the Face
February 10, 2000
A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astolphe de Custine
by Anka Muhlstein, Translated from the French by Teresa Waugh
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The New Age of the Book
March 18, 1999
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The Real Marquis
January 14, 1999
At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
by Francine du Plessix Gray
Sade: A Biographical Essay
by Laurence L. Bongie
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Free Spirit
June 26, 1997
The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Sir Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Patrick Gardiner
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George Washington’s False Teeth
March 27, 1997
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How to Read a Book
June 6, 1996
Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer by Roger Chartier
Shakespeare, the King’s Playwright: Theater and the Stuart Court, 1603-1613
by Alvin Kernan
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Cherchez la Femme
August 10, 1995
Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates
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Sex for Thought
December 22, 1994
L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale Fayard
Romans libertins du XVIIIe siècle edited by Raymond Trousson
Ces Livres qu’on ne lit que d’une main: Lecture et lecteurs de livres pornographiques au XVIIIe siècle by Jean Marie Goulemot
Vol. 1: Oeuvres érotiques de Mirabeau: (HIC-ETHAEC) ou l’Elève des Révérends Pères Jésuites d’Avignon Le Rideau levé ou l’éducation de Laure Ma Conversion ou le libertin de qualité L'Abbé IL-ET-ELLE
Vol. 2: Oeuvres érotiques de Restif de la Bretonne: règlement pour les prostituées L’Anti-Justine ou les délices de l’amour Dom Bougre aux Etats-Généraux ou doléances du Portier des Chartreux Les Revies, histories refaites sous une autre hypothèse du coeu Le Pornographe ou idées d'un honnête homme sur un project de
Vol. 3: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (I): lui-mêmeMémoires du Suzon, soeur de D.. B.., portier des Chartreux, écrits par elle-même Histoire de Marguerite, fille du Suzon, nièce de D** B*****, La Cauchoise ou mémoires d’une courtisane célèbre Histoire de Dom B , portier des Chartreux, écrite par
Vol. 4: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (II): d’Eulalie, ou tableau du libertinage de Paris Lucette ou les progrès du libertinage La courtisane anaphrodite ou la pucelle libertine Correspondance
Vol. 5: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (III): du Père Dirrag et de Mademoiselle Eradice Le Triomphe des religieuses ou les nonnes babillardes Lettres galantes et philosophiques de deux nonnes La Messaline française ou les nuits de la duchesse de Pol e Thérèse philosophe ou mémoires pour servir à l'histoire
Vol. 6: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (IV): célèbre libertine Décrets des sens sanctionnés par la volupté Requête et décret en faveur des putains, des fouteuses, des maquerelles et des branleuses contre les bougres, les bardaches et les brûleurs de pa Eléonore ou l'heureuse personne Vénus en rut ou vie d'une
Vol. 7: Oeuvres érotiques du XVIIe siècle: des dames Vénus dans le cloître ou la religieuse en chemise L’Académie des dames Le Rut ou la pudeur éteinte L'Ecole des filles ou la philosophie
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Reading a Riot
October 22, 1992
The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution by Arlette Farge, by Jacques Revel, translated by Claudia Miéville
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An Enlightened Revolution?
October 24, 1991
The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution by Roger Chartier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century by Keith Michael Baker
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The Good Old Days
May 16, 1991
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What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
January 19, 1989
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A Star Is Born
October 27, 1988
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction by Jean Starobinski, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, with an introduction by Robert J. Morrissey
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Pop Foucaultism
October 9, 1986
Damning the Innocent: A History of the Persecution of the Impotent in Pre-Revolutionary France by Pierre Darmon, translated by Paul Keegan
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Revolution sans Revolutionaries
January 31, 1985
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt
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Working-Class Casanova
June 28, 1984
Will & Circumstance: Montesquieu, Rousseau and the French Revolution by Norman Hampson
Journal de ma vie: Jacques-Louis Ménétra, compagnon vitrier au 18e siècle edited by Daniel Roche
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An Exchange on Mother Goose
May 10, 1984
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Danton and Double-Entendre
February 16, 1984
Danton written by Jean-Claude Carrière, directed by Andrzej Wajda
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The Meaning of Mother Goose
February 2, 1984
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The Art of Dying
May 13, 1982
Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-century France by John McManners
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What the Doctor Ordered
October 8, 1981
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Poland Rewrites History
July 16, 1981
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Hunting for Humanity
May 15, 1980
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck
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What’s New About the Old Regime?
April 3, 1980
The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy 1598-1789: Society and State by Roland E. Mousnier, translated by Brian Pearce
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The Rise of the Writer
May 31, 1979
Writer and Public in France: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day by John Lough
Le Siècle des lumières en province: Académies et académiciens provinciaux, 1680-1789 by Daniel Roche
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Poverty, Crime & Revolution
October 2, 1975
Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century by Louis Chevalier, translated by Frank Jellinek
The Names of Kings: The Parisian Laboring Poor in the Eighteenth Century by Jeffry Kaplow
The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon by Albert Soboul, translated by Alan Forrest, by Colin Jones
The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750-1789 by Olwen H. Hufton
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Giving New Life to Death
June 27, 1974
Piété baroque et déchristianisation en Provence au XVIIIe siècle: Les attitudes devant la mort d’après les clauses des testaments by Michel Vovelle
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Death’s Checkered Past
June 13, 1974
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Ariès, translated by Patricia M. Ranum
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French History: The Case of the Wandering Eye
April 5, 1973
Reactions to the French Revolution by Richard Cobb
The Police and the People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820 by Richard Cobb
A Second Identity: Essays on France and French History by Richard Cobb
Crimes et criminalité en France sous I’Ancien Régime, 17e-18e siècles by A. Abbiateci, by F. Billacois, by Y. Bongert, by N. Castan, by Y. Castan, by P. Petrovitch
Les Hommes et la mort en Anjou aux 17e et 18e siècles by François Lebrun
Vision de la mort et de l’au-delà en Provence d’après les autels des âmes du purgatoire, XVe-XXe siècles by Gaby Vovelle, by Michel Vovelle
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Six Reasons Google Books Failed
March 28, 2011
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1789—2011?
February 22, 2011
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How Google Can Save America's Books
November 23, 2010
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A Library Without Walls
October 4, 2010
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Talking About Brazil with Lilia Schwarcz
August 17, 2010
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Blogging, Now and Then
March 18, 2010