Lourdes Manalo
A folder labeled for the wrong decade once led Lourdes Manalo to an archive discovery that contradicted its own finding aid, and she has argued with archivists about that label ever since. Now in her fifties, after years scheduling irrigation and pruning crews for municipal parks, she argues with scholars about whether a newly found document changes the past or only the filing system.
Articles by Lourdes Manalo

Digital Humanities Lab Accused of Over-Indexing 'General Vibe' of the Carolingian Renaissance
The model was trained on historians' prose about the manuscripts, not the manuscripts.

Reviewer 2 Demands Primary Source Proof that 14th-Century Peasants Actually Felt 'Vaguely Anxious'
The reviewer accepts that the feeling happened. He wants it notarized.