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Dec. 4, 5:00 PM
Merrill-Cazier Library Room 101
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History department news
Leading Mormon Studies scholar Patrick Mason named as USU’s Arrington Chair
12/07/2018
Patrick Q. Mason, a history professor who holds the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University, has been named the new Leonard J. Arrington Chair for Mormon History and Culture.
Public 'roadshow' to collect local memories and record family relics of WWI
11/08/2018
Records of artifacts and recorded remembrances to be included in a WWI archive