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As a noun, “affect” refers to “the conscious emotion that occurs in reaction to a thought or experience.” Can—should—the partsof human experience traditionally excluded from “rational” thought like emotion, conscious or not, inform the discipline andpractice of history? Resolute adherents to scientific positivism would say no, but some feel otherwise.

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