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C-SPAN Visits Professor Snyder's Classroom.

C-SPAN recently visited and taped a lecture in Professor Christina Snyder's J300, "Natives and Newcomers in Early America." C-SPAN was interested in filming the lecture as part of a forthcoming series on lectures in American history from a variety of academic institutions across the nation. MORE...>