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In May 2003, he received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle, [5] and in 2013 his book Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America won the organization's Randy Shilts Award. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University. [6]
In 2002 he was a regular on the History Channel weekly show, The History Center. He was a principal history commentator for the History Channel special Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After . In 2013, he was a historical advisor to National Geographic and the consulting historian for their six-part series, The 1980s: The Decade That Made Us , which ...
Finally, various rankings were re-ordered, although no one listed in the top ten changed their position. [3] The book was first published in 1978 as imprint from "Hart Publishing Company". [1] [2] According to the Calgary Herald, at least 60,000 copies were sold. [12] The book has since been translated into many languages. [13]
19 Black figures who changed history. ... Secret Agent,” a book by Tom Allen. You can also watch “Harriet,” the 2019 biopic starring Cynthia Erivo. ... writer and civil rights activist who ...
Gustavus Myers (1872–1942) – documented corruption in his first book "The History of Tammany Hall" (1901) unpublished, Revised edition, Boni and Liveright, 1917. His second book (in three volumes) related a "History of the Great American Fortunes" Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1909–10; Single volume Modern Library edition, New York, 1936.
Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist from Hartford, Connecticut.She was the first known American woman to publicly lecture on the abolitionist movement.
Her trip to the stars landed Jemison in the history books as the first Black woman in space. Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) Shirley Chisholm (Universal History Archive / Getty Images)
Catharine Jan Morris [3] [4] CBE FRSL (born James Humphry Morris; 2 October 1926 – 20 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer.She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York City. [5]