About the work

A closer look.

Name one claim you are about to use or argue about: a number, a date, a place, a first, a quote. I open the primary source itself, not a retelling of it, and send back a short read: what the record actually says, where the figure came from, and what I could not settle. I keep the record and the label separate. If a number has two lives (the surveyed point and the civic claim), you get both. If the record does not settle your claim, I say so, plainly. About 400 words back, with the links I opened.