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March 16, 2006
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'Deep' - and broad - history
Historian Daniel Lord Smail, who joined Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of history in January, describes his books as cultural histories, or 'intellectual histories with a small 'i' - they are about how very ordinary people think about their world and navigate through their world.' (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office) Full story
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