One of the fascinating subplots in the controversy over whether Michael Bellesiles committed scholarly fraud in his book, Arming America, is what he claims happened to some of his research notes. Bellesiles asserts that water damage from a broken sprinkler pipe in Bowden Hall, where the Emory University History Department`s offices are housed, flooded the building and "pulped" and "destroyed" the yellow legal pads on which he says he recorded in penciled "tick marks" the 11,170 probates he says he researched.
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