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Scott Ellsworth

Scott Ellsworth is the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Game, winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is also the author of The World Beneath Their Feet and Death in a Promised Land, his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. Scott lives in Ann Arbor, where he teaches in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.
Midnight on the Potomac
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Midnight on the Potomac
The Ground Breaking

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Tue Jul 15 | 07:00 PM
St. Louis County Library - Clark Family Branch
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. St
St. Louis, MO 63131
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Wed Jul 16 | 07:00 PM
POLITICS AND PROSE BOOKSTORE AT THE WHARF
610 WATER ST SW STE 1A
WASHINGTON, DC 20024-2990
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Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education
213 North King Street
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
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LITERATI BOOKSTORE
124 E WASHINGTON ST
ANN ARBOR, MI 48104-1905
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TULSA, OK 74103-2409
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The Ground Breaking tells the long-suppressed story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By Scott Ellsworth   What if one’s history wasn’t what it was supposed to be? On the block where I grew up, families rarely locked their doors, children played outside until well past dark on warm summer evenings, and history, in the form of the kinds of things that appeared on the nightly news, was

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