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- ↑ Harte, Negley (16 July 2008), "Professor Charlotte Erickson: Meticulous historian of migration" , The Independent, archived from the original on 25 May 2022, retrieved 28 March 2009
- ↑ "Gary Gerstle will be the next Mellon Professor of American History". Faculty of History. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
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