Martha A. Sandweiss
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About the Author
Martha A. Sandweiss is a historian and author whose work illuminates the complicated intersections of race, identity, memory, and American culture. With a keen eye for overlooked lives and cultural contradictions, she brings the past into vivid conversation with the present. Her acclaimed book Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line explores a remarkable story of reinvention, secrecy, and social boundaries in nineteenth-century America. Sandweiss’s scholarship and storytelling invite readers to question received histories while discovering the human drama embedded in the nation’s past.
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Books by Martha A. Sandweiss
