"You should head home, Juls," I hear a voice, and when I look up from my work, Adrian stands over me.

"I will, but first I need to finish my paragraph," I reply with a smile.

One of the few places at Northwestern with a microform reader is the Early Modern department, where I've been working on this project for a while.

Our team is pretty small. Doctor Elliot and his Master's student Alyssa are leading the project, with five of us assisting. We all attended prestigious ...