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  The History Department Celebrates the 2021 Student Award and Scholarship Winners
  May 21, 2021
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  The 2021 Stephanie Camp Memorial Lecture with Tiya Miles (Harvard)
  May 21, 2021
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  May 14, 2021
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  May 14, 2021

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Faculty Bookshelf

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  Vanessa Freije, Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico
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  Anand Yang, Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World
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  Anand Yang, Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
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  James Gregory, The Seattle General Strike Centennial Edition by Robert L. Friedheim. Introduction, photo essay, and afterword by James Gregory
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  Jordanna Bailkin, Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain
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  William Rorabaugh, Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction

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