During two decades working as an assistant archivist in the Buswell Library Archives& Special Collections, the most acutely painful development I’ve witnessed among the campus community is the desecration of the memory of Dr. James Oliver Buswell, Jr., theologian, pastor and third President of Wheaton College.
Buswell library shelves. Photo from the Wheaton Record.
The first general principle of historiography is that a researcher should not insert himself into the era under investigation. H...
