History

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  Bowdoin Offers New Minors in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

  Both disciplines will strengthen language skills and promote regional awareness of an area stretching from Morocco to Iran. They will be available to students in the upcoming 2019 academic year.
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  Diabetes: The History of a Public Health Crisis

  Professor Matthew Klingle asks: How did diabetes go from a disease of largely affluence a century and a half ago—something we blamed on overeating and inactivity—to a disease today that’s associated with low socioeconomic status?
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  Words of Change

  Language is not a fixed construct. It lives and breathes and evolves with the people who speak it, with cultural practices, and the passage of time.

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