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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.
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Midnight on the Potomac
The Ground Breaking

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Tue Nov 11 | 04:30 PM
Central Library Community Room
419 21st Ave S
Nashville, TN 37203
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Thu Nov 13 | 05:30 PM
NEWSOUTH INC
105 S COURT ST
MONTGOMERY, AL 36104-4003
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Tue Dec 09 | 06:30 PM
University of Michigan Club of Washington DC *ticketed* Solid State Books
600 H Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
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