Robeson : an American ballad / by Lubasch, Arnold H., 1932-2016

Table of Contents: “…Destiny's child -- Robeson of Rutgers -- Columbia and Essie -- Provincetown Players -- Voice of a people -- Ol' Man River -- Othello in London -- Road to Moscow -- Turning left -- I have made my choice -- Ballad for Americans -- Othello on Broadway -- Confronting a president -- Campaign for Wallace -- Paris and Peekskill -- The red and the black -- You are the un-Americans -- Free and ill -- Home to Harlem -- The tallest tree -- Centennial.…”

The men who united the States : America's explorers, inventors, eccentrics, and mavericks, and the creation of one nation, indivisible / by Winchester, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Journeys to the fall line ; The streams beyond the hills ; The pivot and the feather ; The first big dig ; The wedded waters of New York ; The linkman cometh ; That ol' man river -- When the American story was fanned by fire, 1811-1956. …”