We all have limitations, and as a big fan of your book Searching for Jim, I'd say long live your negotiation of those limitations! I spent three years researching Missouri slavery from a distance(partly because my fellowship covered daycare but not travel expenses), only to have your book published 6 months after I graduated. I read many of the same primary sources you use in your book, and you have a gift for taking abstruse prose and rendering it not only intelligible but, better still, entertaining and informative. Personally, I revel in your professional "limitations." Sharon McCoy