Martha A Sandweiss: 2 books

Book cover of Passing Strange

Passing Strange

A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

by Martha A. Sandweiss
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009

Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the...
Book cover of Slavery and the University

Slavery and the University

Histories and Legacies

by Ruth J. Simmons, Craig Steven Wilder, Jennifer Bridges Oast
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two...
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