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Katlyn Carter
Katlyn Carter is a political and intellectual historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, specializing in the American and French Revolutions. Her first book, "Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions," explores how decisions and debates about the place of secrecy in politics during the Age of Revolutions shaped representative democracy