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This illustrated book will take you on a guided tour of 300 landmarks uniquely related to African-American history and culture. Text and photographs being the black experience to life. A few examples include the Chappie James Aerospace Center, Frederick Douglass House, Sojourner Truth grave, Kentucky Derby Museum, Preservation Hall, Boston Massacre Memorial, the Motown Museum. These and other monuments, museums, houses, plaques, and birthplaces described...
50) Pilgrimage
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"Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. "That's when I started making lists," she says. She added the houses of Virginia...
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"A tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America's founding. Obscure, well-known, off-the-beaten path, urban, here are taverns, meeting houses, battlefields, forts, monuments, homes whose rich heritage all combine to define our country-the places where daring people forged a revolution. There is always something new to be found in America's past that also brings greater clarity to our present,...
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