Highlighting African-American Maritime History with a broad range of books on American History.
From left to right in the image: Robert Smalls (1839-1915), Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), and Matthew Henson (1866-1955) are just four of many, many heroes in history from just before the Civil War into the early twentieth Century. See the Library’s exhibit in the Navy Hall for details about books in our collections that cover this period.
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