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Unexplained History: What Historians Still Don't Understand
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An expert in history will discuss the latest reliable evidence and theories for some major events, people, and buildings that fascinate all of us in this lecture.
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Caroline Winterer
Caroline Winterer is an American historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University. Previously the director of the Stanford Humanities Center, she received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of the American Ingenuity Award, Smithsonian Institution, for mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin.
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