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World's largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of US history. Publishes @thejamhistory, #TheAmHistorian, #ProcessHistory
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Joined July 2009
The OAH Executive Committee firmly denounces Florida's Department of Education's decision to reject AP African American Studies, leading to decisions to strip scholarship from the curriculum. (1/2).
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The 2022 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, given annually for an author’s first scholarly book, goes to Gabriel Winant, @UChicagoHistory for his book, The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America @Harvard_Press
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The SCOTUS Dobbs v Jackson majority opinion rests on a flawed interpretation of the history of abortion criminalization in the US. Read the @The_OAH and @AHAhistorians statement here:
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After much discussion and careful deliberation, the OAH Executive Committee voted yesterday to cancel #OAH20 in Washington, D.C. We thank everyone for their patience and understanding as we worked through this unprecedented situation. Read more:
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"Vibrant democratic societies are not built upon a foundation of selective depictions of the past, but rather demand critical examination of and grappling with the historical record.” Read the OAH response to White House Conference on American History -
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The 2022 Friend of History Award goes to @madebyhistory for outstanding support of historical research and the public presentation of U.S. history. @washingtonpost @brianros1 @KathrynBrownell @car1ygoodman.
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The 2021 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award goes to Garrett Felber @garrett_felber for Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
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The 2021 Frederick Jackson Turner Award is awarded to Johanna Fernandez, Baruch College of the City University of New York, for The Young Lords: A Radical History @Baruch_Weissman.
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The 2022 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender goes to @ProfJLMorgan of @NYUHistory for her book, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic @DukePress.
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The James A. Rawley Prize goes to Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta for the best book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States #OAH20Awards @uncpressblog #twitterstorians
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The Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History goes to Saidiya Hartman for the most original book in U.S. women’s and/or gender history #OAH20Awards @wwnorton
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The winner of both the Lawrence W. Levine Award and the Darlene Clark Hine Award for 2022 is @TiyaMilesTAM, of @Harvard, for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake @randomhouse.
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The Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, the 2021 Darlene Clark Hine Award, and the 2021 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History goes to Thavolia Glymph for The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
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We are sadden to learn that Gary Nash, emeritus professor of history at UCLA, leading scholar in the field of early American history, and former OAH President (1994-95), died earlier today. He will be missed.
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Vibrant democratic societies are not built upon a foundation of selective depictions of the past, but rather demand critical examination of and grappling with the historical record. Read the statement -
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The Merle Curti Social History Award goes to Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers @sejr_historian for the best book published in American social history #OAh20Awards #Twitterstorians @yalepress
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On Wednesday, March 16, at 6pm ET, leading labor historians discuss what past labor movements can tell us about today's pandemic-driven labor organizing. Register for the free webinar here -
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The Liberty Legacy Foundation Award goes to Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta for the best book on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present #OAH20Awards @uncpressblog
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The Ellis W. Hawley Prize goes to Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @KeeangaYamahtta for the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States #OAH20Awards @uncpressblog
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The Avery O. Craven Award goes to W. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb for the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history #OAH20Awards @OUPAcademic
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For more context - Open letter signed by 600 scholars of African American studies, including members of the OAH -
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The Darlene Clark Hine Award goes to Shennette Garrett-Scott @EbonRebel for the best book in African American women’s and gender history #OAH20Awards @ColumbiaUP
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The Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award goes to Eric Foner for contributions that have significantly enriched our understanding and appreciation of American history #OAH20Awards #twitterstorians
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Samantha Seeley of @urichmond has received the 2022 Merle Curti Social History Award for her book, Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States @OIEAHC and @UNC_Press.
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@The_OAH has sent the Univ. of Mississippi a letter of concern about the effective termination of @garrett_felber's employment there. We assert that academic freedom standards apply to all instructors in higher ed regardless of rank or employment status.
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The 2021 James A. Rawley Prize goes to Vincent Brown for Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
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The Merle Curti Intellectual History Award goes to Katrina Forrester @katforrester for the best book published in American intellectual history #OAH20Awards #Twitterstorians @PrincetonUPress
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Congratulations to this year's OAH Award Winners! We wish we could applaud you and your achievements in person. As we cannot, we ask all #twitterstorians to congratulate the recipients via social media or other digital platform. Watch #OAH20Awards for announcements!
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New from @processhistory: Mapping the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. "The map highlights the prevalence of group escapes . challenging scholars and students to rethink what we know about the Underground Railroad," writes @cooperwingert.
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All #twitterstorians with books that would have debuted/appeared at #OAH20, list them below (include url so folks can purchase!) and we will amplify! Let's see how big of a list we can get!.
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Hey, history twitter, as we start a new academic year, let's share those bits of advice that you wish you had been given at the start of your academic career (either as an undergrad, grad, or in your first academic position).
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The OAH joins @AHAhistorians in condemning FL's most recent attempt to limit the teaching of inclusive history as the FLDOE seeks to expand the state's "Don't Say Gay" law by eliminating LGBTQ history from the state's social studies curriculum.
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The 2021 Lawrence W. Levine Award goes to @DrMChatelain for Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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OAH has issued a statement on the response to protests at and beyond Indiana University.
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The Huggins-Quarles Award goes to Ana C. Rosado @CarminRosado for graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation #OAH20Awards
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The 2021 Ray Allen Billington Award goes to @Jeff_Ostler for Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
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The 2021 David Montgomery Award goes to @MartinezMatsuda for Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
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The 2021 Merle Curti Social History Award and the 2021 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award also goes to Johanna Fernandez. Congratulations!.
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We're hiring! Our Public History Manager directs all our public history projects and gets to work with many talented historians. Applications are due by July 12. MA in U.S. history required, Ph.D. preferred.
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Today we celebrate Juneteenth! On this day in 1865, the news of freedom finally reached enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
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The 2022 Lerner-Scott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women's history goes to Tiffany Jasmin González of @JMUHistory for “Representation for a Change: Women in Government and the Chicana/o Civil Rights Movement in Texas”.
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The David Montgomery Award goes to Eduardo Contreras for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history #OAH20Awards @lawcha_org @PennPress
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The 2021 Friend of History Award goes to Refusing to Forget. Refusing to Forget is an award-winning educational non-profit that works to raise public awareness of the long history of anti-Mexican American violence in Texas.
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We are please to announce the 2021 OAH Award Winners. Congratulations!.
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The John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award goes to Caroline Radesky @Radeskers for the best PhD dissertation in U.S. LGBTQ history #OAH20Awards
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CONGRATULATIONS to these U.S. history scholars appointed as OAH Distinguished Lecturers! Learn more about them and their work Visit to inquire about virtual or in-person talks with any of our U. S. history speakers. #OAHLecturer
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Congratulations to #OAHistorian @TiyaMilesTAM on being named a 2021 National Book Award finalist for "All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake!"
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Who should we be following to get great content on American history teaching and scholarship? #Twitterstorians #sschat #teachhist.
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The Lerner-Scott Prize goes to Aimee Loiselle for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history #OAH20Awards
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The Organization of American Historians proudly announces the appointment of 23 historians to the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program. Read more here: Meet them here:
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The Lawrence W. Levine Award goes to Erik R. Seeman for the best book in American cultural history #OAH20Awards @PennPress
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The Louis Pelzer Memorial Award goes to Bench Ansfield @benchansfield for the best essay in American history by a graduate student #OAH20Awards
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The Binkley-Stephenson Award goes to Verónica Martínez-Matsuda @MartinezMatsuda for the best article that appeared in the @JournAmHist the preceding calendar year #OAH20Awards
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OAH welcomes 22 new speakers to the Distinguished Lectureship Program! Congratulations to these U. S. history scholars. Learn more about them and their work: #OAHLecturer
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Our next Future of the Past webinar is tomorrow at 6pm ET! We are joined by noted scholars who will look at recent events to explore the essential place of Native American & Indigenous history in U.S. history. Free, but registration is required -
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We invite you to read historian Marc Stein's essay "Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969" on our blog, Process. #PrideMonth.
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It wouldn't solve the problem, but is it time to start leaving affiliations off conf badges? Then we are historians & not our affiliations.
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The Huggins-Quarles Award goes to Briana Adline Royster for “Of Our Stock and Blood: Empire, Religion, and Afro-Diasporic Identity, 1838–1945”.
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Honorable Mention for the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award goes to Quito J. Swan, Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice
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#OAH22 Spotlight: "Responding to the Right’s Targeting of Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project" in-person and recording online. . @rachelidatweets @LDBurnett @MonicaMnzMtz #sschat #twiterstorians
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The Liberty Legacy Foundation Award is given to the best book on the civil rights struggle from the beginnings of the nation to the present. The 2022 award goes to @mia__bay of @PennHistory for Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, Belknap Press of @Harvard_Press.
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The Frederick Jackson Turner Award goes to Vincent DiGirolamo @VincentDiGirol3 for a first scholarly book dealing with some aspect of American history #OAH20Awards #Twitterstorians
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@DestinKJenkins of @Stanford @StanfordHumSci has received both the James A. Rawley Prize and the Ellis W. Hawley Prize for his book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City @UChicagoPress.
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The 2022 John D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award goes to @beansvelocci of @PennHistory for “Binary Logic: Race, Expertise, and the Persistence of Uncertainty in American Sex Research”.
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OAH Vice President @prof_erikalee testifies before Congress at 10am ET today. She is one of eight experts who will speak on Discrimination and Violence against Asian Americans. Watch live:
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Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award is awarded to Emilio Zamora, University of Texas at Austin.
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Congratulations on your new book #OAHLecturer @juliairwin! We are grateful to have you in the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program. Learn more:
Though it's been out in the world for a few weeks now, #CatastrophicDiplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century, is now officially published! If you order from @UNC_Press, the book is 30% off with the promo code 01SOCIAL30. Thanks for considering!.
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The #OAH18 app is ready for download here: and includes a handy link to explore historic Sacramento @thecliodotcom#twitterstorians #UShistory #Amhist
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In a 7-2 decision #SCOTUS upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in Haaland v. Brackeen, a case in which @The_OAH filed an amicus brief in collaboration with our @AHAhistorians colleagues. With thanks to @MaggieBlackhawk and her team. Read the decision here:
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For Indigenous Peoples' Day we're revisiting the March 2021 issue of TAH, Native American History and Sovereignty, including articles on the history of Native American sovereignty, teaching Native American history, and decolonizing lesson plans.
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In light of yesterday's #scotusleak in #DobbsvJackson, we invite you to learn more about the history of abortion and women's rights and health. Thread.
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Did you miss last night's webinar on Native American/Indigenous hist? It's up on YouTube. Thank you to those who requested additional resources for teaching Native American/Indigenous history. They will be posted soon!.
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#Twitterstorians We know many are concerned about COVID-19 in relation to #OAH20, we are too. We're working through this situation and will have more information soon. We appreciate everyone's patience as we work through the many serious repercussions of changes to our meeting.
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21 dynamic speakers join the Distinguished Lectureship Program for the Organization of American Historians. Read more about their background, expertise, and lecture topics here: #OAHLecturer.#twitterstorians
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The 2021 Lerner-Scott Prize goes to Michaela Klerber for "Gendered Societies, Sexual Empires: French Colonization among the Illinois".
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History on Trial with @davidwblight1, @UCLAHGP's Danny Diaz, @UCLAHist's Robin D. G. Kelley, @orlandorserrano, @jamuseum's Lynn Yamasaki, and @HistoryFrog. Join the livestream here:
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The 2022 Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Teacher of the Year Award goes to @msjingold of Bay Shore Middle School - @BayShoreSchools - in Bay Shore, New York.
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#OAHDistinguished Lecturer and @PrincetonAAS professor @KeeangaYamahtta Taylor delivers keynote address for @DukeUniversity's annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration Sunday 3pm/ET. LIVESTREAM:
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The 2021 Willi Paul Adams Award goes to @E_Devienne for La ruée vers le sable: Une historie environnementale des plages de Los Angeles au XXe siècle
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Congratulations @The_OAH member and 2021 Program Cmte Chair @Prof_NataliaM, selected as a 2020 @macfound Genius Fellow: "Revealing how narratives of racial difference that were constructed and applied to immigrant groups a century ago continue to shape national policy today.".
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The Honorable Mention for the 2021 Darlene Clark Hine Award goes to @DainaRameyBerry and Kali Nicole Gross for A Black Women’s History of the United States . Congratulations!.
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The Binkley-Stephenson Award goes to Kornel Chang for “Independence without Liberation: Democratization as Decolonization Management in U.S.-Occupied Korea, 1945–1948”.
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.@The_OAH has jointly filed an amicus brief with @AHAhistorians in Brackeen v. Haaland. Acting as "a steward of history, not an advocate of a particular legal standard," the OAH is committed to providing historical context for matters before #SCOTUS.
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The 2022 Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award goes to Lorien Foote, @TAMU, for Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the Civil War @UNC_Press.
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@SassyProf We definitely don't want anyone to feel unwelcome because of the affiliation request, & we absolutely don't discriminate against those who don't have an affiliation. We will update the form. Thank you!.
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Thank you to all the attendees, participants, and exhibitors that made the #OAH21 not only possible, but great! If you missed a session, remember, all registrants can access recorded content until May 14. See you at #OAH22! #Twitterstorians #sschat #Amhist
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To launch Reframing History, our new set of strategies for more effective history communication, we're hosting a live event at @amhistorymuseum on 2/26, w/ @ClintSmithIII @marthasjones_ and @Jorge_Zamanillo Learn more and RSVP for the livestream:
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Congratulations to #OAHistorian Monica Muñoz Martinez @MonicaMnzMtz on her new book "The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas"
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The 1st public marker to Reconstruction's turbulent & transformative history, dedicated last May @MemphisMassacre
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Congratulations to the OAH members named as 2022 Guggenheim Fellows! @JLWeisenfeld @KeishaBlain .@child011 @MittelstadtJen @ProfMSinha .
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