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Captain Paul Cuffe, Yeoman: A Biography (Black New England)

Jeffrey A. Fortin - University of Massachusetts Press
Format: Paperback

Paul Cuffe is best understood as a member of the Black founding fathers - a group of pre-eminent African Americans who built institutions and movements during the first decades of the United States. While he is known amongst scholars, his astounding life story deserves a much wider audience....
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Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History

Robert Cvornyek - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback

Boston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence in Boston over the years as they advocated for racial integration and transformed their sports...
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The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Nancy Goldstone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe - Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France - and their efforts to rule amid the scandal, intrigue,...
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Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads: Fourth Edition

Carolyn Sakowski - Blair
Format: Paperback

Now in its fourth edition, Touring the Western North Carolina Backroadshas long been the go-to guide for folks seeking the unspoiled landscape and little-known cultural attractions of western North Carolina. This is a guide for those who want to travel the mountains of western North Carolina,...
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A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

Crystal R. Sanders - The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback

A Forgotten Migration tells the little-known story of "segregation scholarships" awarded by states in the US South to Black students seeking graduate education in the pre-Brown v. Board of Education era. Under the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, decades earlier, southern states could...
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Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances

John DiLeo - G Letters & Editions
Format: Hardcover

John DiLeo's Not Even Nominated: 40 Overlooked Costars of Oscar-Winning Performances puts the focus on some shockingly neglected achievements. It's true that James Stewart won an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story (1940) while Cary Grant -- every bit as funny as Stewart but in a different...
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The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Jeffrey Rosen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.. The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable...
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