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Source: The Spokesman-Review
Historians in the News
February 19, 2014

WSU history professor found dead in pond


Police in Pullman say the body of Washington State University history professor Scott Stratton, 51, has been found in a pond at Sunnyside Park.

Police found the body early Wednesday morning.

The WSU website lists Stratton as an instructor in the history department who received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2007. His area of expertise was American history from the Civil War era through to 1960s counterculture....

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