Brandon Morgan
Feb 10, 2021

Good point. I mentioned this in response to someone else on Hypothesis, and made a point of it in the Activity Feed in Brightspace, but it's important to remember that *argument* means something specific in the context of historical research. When historians make arguments, they don't necessarily want us to go do something, nor are they trying to persuade us that a particular stance on an issue is the best one (although both CAN be true). Instead, they're making a case for their interpretation of past events. Lovell wanted to make a certain case about the significance of the AHPN for the Guatemalan people, particularly for those whose family members and loved ones were disappeared by the Guatemalan government during the civil war. What case does Lovell make about the archive's significance?

Brandon Morgan
Brandon Morgan

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Associate Dean, History Instructor, & researcher of the Borderlands, U.S. West, & Modern Mexico. I just published a book about violence and the rural border.

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