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kqed.org > forum > 20/10/101914461 > a-historian-grapples-with-how-we-disappear-after-we-die

A Historian Grapples with ‘How We Disappear’ After We Die

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (210+ words) Airdate: Friday, July 16 at 9 AM As a historian who teaches a class called “The History of Information,” Stanford professor Thomas Mullaney has spent decades thinking about the unreliability of archival materials in understanding the past, subject as they are to…...