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Library Closed:
Library Closed
Tuesday, 24 December 2013
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Events
Environmental History Seminar
Panel Discussion: Telling Environmental History
5:15PM Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Brown Bag
The Memory Frontier: Memorializing King Philip's War in the Native Northeast
12:00PM Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Making History: The Salem Witch Trials in Documents & Artifacts
Pre-talk reception at 5:30 pm 6:00PM Wednesday, 11 December 2013
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