Howard Spodek (November 4, 1941 – August 20, 2023) was an American world historian, a professor of history and geography and urban studies at

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...

.Faculty listing, History department, Temple University
. Retrieved 2010-03-24.
. Retrieved 2010-03-24. He received a B.A. from

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in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the

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in 1972; while a graduate student, he visited India as a

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.About the author, ''The World's History'', 4th ed. He joined the Temple faculty in 1972. As well as his faculty position at Temple, Spodek was the treasurer of the World History Association and a member of the editorial board of ''

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''. Spodek specialized in Indian history, and in particular on the city of

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. He was the author of ''The World's History'', a college textbook that is sometimes also used for high school

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history courses and that has gone through four editions. He won Temple's Great Teacher Award in 1993.A Top Temple Teacher Gets Students Talking Every Year, ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', November 27, 1993. Howard Spodek was born on November 4, 1941.

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