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There are a lot of non top 20 schools, with active people in Economic History. UC Davis, have at least 5 Professor doing history (Clark, Eriksson, Meissner, Perez, Taylor), and also requires that every student take a history class to graduate. UC Irvine has Bogart and Arthi, both doing active history research. Price Fishback in U of Arizona is also really active, and more lower in the rankings, Vanderbilt just hired Brian Beach and Sarah Quincy (and they also have Collins and Goodman Bacon). So just check each program website to see the requirements for each.