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This two-volume companion paperback original edition of Curtis's award-winning Black Heritage Sites: An African American Odyssey and Finder's Guide (Amercian Library Assn., 1996) offers a fascinating travel guide to landmarks in African American history. Covering the 50 states, D.C., and Canada, the books provide directions to spots of local and broader interest. Curtis sketches sites with commentary and supplies notes with further information, including addresses, telephone numbers, visiting hours, fees, and bibliography. Each volume carries the same preface and overall introduction, along with regional introductions to the South, the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, and noncontiguous states. All states and sites appear in alphabetical order. New York gets the most coverage, with 31 pages, while several states, e.g., Arizona, get less than a page. Canada is treated as a special six-page feature. Libraries without the original ALA edition should consider this set for reference in both travel and history.?Thomas Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, Black Heritage Sites is a unique travel guide to the major landmarks of African American history across the United States. This volume includes descriptions and detailed visitor information for hundreds of places of national and local significance, from churches and schools to battlefields and cemeteries, from stops on the Underground Railroad to landmarks of the 1950s civil rights movement. Black Heritage Sites is perfect for travelers and historians of all kinds--from the family planning a cross-country trip to the armchair traveler interested in gaining a unique perspective on African American history.
This two-volume companion paperback original edition of Curtis's award-winning Black Heritage Sites: An African American Odyssey and Finder's Guide (Amercian Library Assn., 1996) offers a fascinating travel guide to landmarks in African American history. Covering the 50 states, D.C., and Canada, the books provide directions to spots of local and broader interest. Curtis sketches sites with commentary and supplies notes with further information, including addresses, telephone numbers, visiting hours, fees, and bibliography. Each volume carries the same preface and overall introduction, along with regional introductions to the South, the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, and noncontiguous states. All states and sites appear in alphabetical order. New York gets the most coverage, with 31 pages, while several states, e.g., Arizona, get less than a page. Canada is treated as a special six-page feature. Libraries without the original ALA edition should consider this set for reference in both travel and history.?Thomas Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, Black Heritage Sites is a unique travel guide to the major landmarks of African American history across the United States. This volume includes descriptions and detailed visitor information for hundreds of places of national and local significance, from churches and schools to battlefields and cemeteries, from stops on the Underground Railroad to landmarks of the 1950s civil rights movement. Black Heritage Sites is perfect for travelers and historians of all kinds--from the family planning a cross-country trip to the armchair traveler interested in gaining a unique perspective on African American history.
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