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History’s Footnotes
The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).
By: Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/historys-footnotes/#books #footnotes