America's First Black Poet; Jupiter Hammon of Long Island, Paperback - Jr. Ransom, Stanley A.

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Reducere. The Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter Hammon compiles the works of Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black writer. When his poem "An Eve...

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When the Revolutionary War broke out and New York City had fallen in 1776, the forces of the king of Great Britain developed a network of forts alo...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

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Reducere. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--...

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Reducere. DescriptionJeanette Gray finnegan Jr., a tenth generation islander, completes the final book in the five book historical fiction series on the Hist...

Reducere. Beyond the idyllic countryside and suburban communities of Long Island lies a murky history of murder and mayhem. A Victorian romance went awry in ...

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In this "sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend" (Publishers Weekly)--the remarkable Major Taylor who became the w...

Reducere. A 2014 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist They became America s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tany...

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The compilers' motivations for publishing many years of research is to provide family and researchers a collection of material with which to confro...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the inspiring story of the first American team to win the Stanley Cup-a feat largely lost to history.In the winter of 1917, as E...

Reducere. DescriptionTake a ghostly journey through Long Island's history, from Native American legends and beyond. Ghosts lurk at the Execution Rocks Lighth...

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Reducere. A middle-aged couple with three young children are longtime residents and homeowners in the community of Massapequa, New York. When Superstorm Sand...

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Reducere. Blanche Kelso Bruce was born a slave in 1841, yet, remarkably, amassed a real-estate fortune and became the first black man to serve a full term in...

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Reducere. Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, very little has been writte...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of training, combat, and segregation written by multiple members of the Tuskegee Airmen *Includes online reso...

Reducere. This is the sequel to "The Magical Bird Beach of Long Island." When the summer birds leave this beach on Long Island's South Shore, new birds arriv...

Reducere. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by...