As he explains in the introduction, most institutional history is written from the top down, while most social history is written from the bottom up.
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"There hasn't been a group that didn't desperately want it but had to face the reality whether they could afford it," Ettinger said, adding that he was currently in discussions with three separate entities _ an institution and two individuals who could buy the archive with the intention of donating it to a museum or other cultural institution.
