"A recent study shows that over the past six years no discipline has lost favor — measured in the number of undergraduates who choose to major in the subject — as dramatically as history." Full story here.
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Kenneth E. Shewmaker, Professor Emeritus of Dartmouth College, passed away on October 31st surrounded by his loving family.
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How computing pioneers at Dartmouth in the 1960s gave rise to the macho tech culture we see today says Joy Lisi Rankin D'98, Math and History major.
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Erika Monahan D'96, a visiting Associate Professor in the History Department for the 2018-19 academic year, has been awarded the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize from the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) for her The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Cornell University Press).
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Historian Colin Calloway's book The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation has been named a 2018 National Book Awards finalist in nonfiction, along with four other works in the running for one of the most coveted literary prizes in America.
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