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  • The First Black Archaeologist

    A Life of John Wesley Gilbert

    de John W.I. Lee ...
    An inspiring portrait of an overlooked pioneer in Black history and American archaeology The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s, but his accomplishments are little known today ... Leer más

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    The First Black Archaeologist

    A Life of John Wesley Gilbert

    de John W.I. Lee ...
    Narrado por Bill Andrew Quinn ...

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    The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the US and Europe, from contemporary publications, ... Leer más

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  • Denmark Vesey’s Garden

    Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

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  • Saving Monticello

    The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built

    de Marc Leepson ...
    The complete history of Thomas Jefferson's iconic American home, Monticello, and how it was not only saved after Jefferson's death, but ultimately made into a National Historic Landmark.When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826, he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final ... Leer más

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  • Washington's End

    The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle

    de Jonathan Horn ...
    Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn “provides a captivating and enlightening look at George Washington’s post-presidential life and the politically divided country that was part of his legacy” (New York Journal of Books).Beginning where most biographies of George Washington leave off, Washington’s End opens with the first president exiting office after eight years ... Leer más

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  • A Clearing In The Distance

    Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

    In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, ... Leer más

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    One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom

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    The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in CanadaPrior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and children made the perilous trip north from enslavement in the United States to freedom in Canada. Many were aided by networks that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. And the stories that emerge ... Leer más

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  • Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

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  • The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

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  • Picturing Victorian America

    Prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1830-1880

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