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Source: NYT

Historians in the News

3-7-08

Harriet Washington: Wins National Book Circle Award

Harriet Washington won the nonfiction prize for “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” (Doubleday).

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