History

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  Why Scholarly Research Should be Podcast At Least Some of the Time

  Meghan Roberts is one of several Bowdoin professors who, along with asking students to write more traditional papers, also assigned podcasts this past year.
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  Bowdoin Historian Highlights Maine’s Debt to Slavery

  In two years, Maine will turn two-hundred years old. Amid the birthday celebrations, Bowdoin’s Brian Purnell, an associate professor of history and Africana studies, asks that we consider the state’s indebtedness to slavery for its origins.
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  Transition, Memory, and Histories of Violence in North Africa: A Comparison

  History scholar Idriss Jebari looks at political unrest in North Africa in recent years, and examines why some regimes survive, and some don’t.

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