The Bone and Sinew of the Land

1739 N Street Northwest,Washington DC 20036

26 August, 2021

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Join us at The Tabard Inn on Thursday, August 26th, 6:00-8:00 PM for an evening of conversation with Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox. Historian and author Dr. Anna-Lisa Cox will discuss her book, The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality, as well as her on-going research in tracing free black families who settled the nation's first frontier. Currently a non-resident fellow at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, her book was honored by the Smithsonian Magazine as one of the top history books of 2018. Harvard's Professor Henry Louise Gates Jr. praised it for being “a revelation of primary historical research that is written with the beauty and empathic powers of a novel,” and New York Times best-selling author Professor Ibram Kendi lauded it for revealing how "starting in the earliest days of the republic, these brave men and women built new lives" in "a story that remains unknown to Americans." Light hors- d'oeuvres will be served Cash bar RESERVATIONS REQUIRED For more information contact: [email protected]