Matt’s closing reminded me of this quote, “History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary in the world... I am arguing that the discipline of history has failed. It is not that historians aren’t doing their jobs but rather that the memory of history has been reconstructed by the elite, because the overwhelming majority of ordinary people rarely leave sufficient primary documents; they do not have others recording their lives in real time." -Min Jin Lee. The loss of local papers only exacerbates this problem.