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When I wrote my dissertation in 2010, I included links to a handful of maps which I had created in Google Earth Pro. I included a now-long-outdated link in the text of the dissertation. When I lost my Duke webspace a couple of years later, put the maps on my Empire State webpage, although behind what I have just discovered to be a broken link. I don’t use the maps in my book (at least in this form).

Rather than re-upload the maps here, which would be kind of a hassle, I will extend the offer to anyone who wishes to see them that I will email you the files. Please email me–jacob.remes@nyu.edu–if you’re interested in the maps, and I will get them to you.

When I put together my lists for my preliminary exams in 2006, I found it immensely useful to look at the lists generated by professors and other graduate students around the country. In the spirit of returning the favor to current future graduate students, here are the lists on which I was examined. They are now ten years old–so don’t reflect the historiography in the intervening decade–but I am told they are still useful.

All three files are in .pdf format.

Major field: Modern U.S. History from 1877 to the Present
Gunther Peck, examiner

Minor field: U.S. Social History from the Colonial Era to the Present
Sarah Deutsch, examiner

Outside field: Canada from Confederation to World War II
John Herd Thompson, examiner