Author: Charles Frederick Heartman
Publisher:
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Xavier University of Louisiana
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Xavier University of Louisiana was founded in 1915 by Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a Roman Catholic congregation of religious women founded in 1891 by Reverend Mother M. Katharine Drexel, to serve the Indians and Colored People.

Author: Megan Rosenbloom
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717427
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in this most intimate covering. Dozens of such books live on in the world’s most famous libraries and museums. Dark Archives exhumes their origins and brings to life the doctors, murderers, and indigents whose lives are sewn together in this disquieting collection. Along the way, Rosenbloom tells the story of how her team of scientists, curators, and librarians test rumored anthropodermic books, untangling the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship. A librarian and journalist, Rosenbloom is a member of The Order of the Good Death and a cofounder of their Death Salon, a community that encourages conversations, scholarship, and art about mortality and mourning. In Dark Archives—captivating and macabre in all the right ways—she has crafted a narrative that is equal parts detective work, academic intrigue, history, and medical curiosity: a book as rare and thrilling as its subject.

Author: Bibliographical Society of America
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: Andrew Graham Dignum
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Guy T. Westmoreland
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Thomas Masterman Winterbottom
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Fisk University. Library
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Gordon Bond
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614238316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Did you know that the Dust Bowl hit New Jersey? Twice? How about that a mysterious experiment in "subliminal advertising" was conducted at a Fort Lee, New Jersey movie theater? Or that railroad communication was advanced on a northwest New Jersey railroad line? Or that America first heard about the Russians launch of Sputnik 2 (with a dog onboard) thanks to a Ukrainian refugee in Perth Amboy, New Jersey? Or that prisons could buy a custom electric chair from a Trenton, New Jersey electrician? Or that aviation matured into an industry thanks to Newark Airport? This book is a collection of articles from www.GardenStateLegacy.com, an online quarterly magazine devoted to New Jersey history that the author began in 2008. The Garden State features to some degree even as a footnote in larger historical stories far more often than one might think. It could just be a matter of someone from the state going on to something of historic importance somewhere else; or that by dumb luck something just happened to occur within its borders. New Jersey may be a footnote in these tangential tales, but they are the kind of unexpected connections that makes exploring New Jersey's history so delightful.

Author: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 932

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