By Andrew Darien Department of History Many students view the research and scholarship of their professors as a mysterious and nebulous world, far removed from the more familiar classroom experience of lecture and discussion. The History Department at Salem State College removes that mystique by asking its majors to take themselves seriously as scholars. Our [...]

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by Annette Chapman-Adisho History Department In a graduate seminar on the French Revolution, the conversation turned to the ‘chaotic’ nature of this revolution of revolutions. I’ll admit, the observation took me aback a bit. A student of the revolution for a decade now, I had not been struck by its chaotic nature. It was chaotic, [...]

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