Summary: How do historians and biographers reconstruct the lives of people from the past? Good biographies rely on telling the lives of people using practiced historical methods of thorough archival research and the sound interrogation of historical sources. But what does this practice of historical methods look like? Erica Dunbar, author of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge, shows us how she recovered the life of Ona Judge from the archives.
