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 | | In 1998, while writing a scholarly paper, Scott discovered that railroad legend John Henry was not a mythical strongman, but a convict assigned to tunneling on the C&O railroad in 1871. |
 | | Previously, he served as founding chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University and General Editor of JHU Press' Studies in Atlantic History and Culture, and has taught at Yale, Minnesota, Stanford, Florida, Illinois, the Federal University of Bahia, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the University of Paris. |
 | | Her fields are the frontier and early national U.S. Her dissertation was entitled "Land, Liberty and Labor in the Post-Revolutionary Era: Kentucky as the Promised Land". |
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