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UD's Peter Kolchin to lead Southern Historical Association

9:13 a.m., Nov. 8, 2013--Peter Kolchin, the Henry Clay Reed Professor of History at the University of Delaware, has begun serving as president of the Southern Historical Association (SHA), the premier professional association for historians of the U.S. South.

Kolchin, who had been SHA vice president, assumed his new post at the association's annual meeting Nov. 2 in St. Louis....

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