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Debby Applegate

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Debby Applegate spent 20 years researching and writing about Henry Ward Beecher. She first discovered Beecher as an undergraduate in the college archives at Amherst College, where she graduated summa cum laude. She continued her work on the preacher as a Sterling Fellow at Yale, where she earned her Ph.D. in American Studies. [more]