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Martha A. Sandweiss

Martha A. Sandweiss
Martha A. Sandweiss is professor emerita of history at Princeton University, where she is founding director of the Princeton & Slavery Project. She is the award-winning author of many books, including Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception across the Color Line and Print the Legend: Photography and the American West.


What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West

Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity
April 16, 2025  By Martha A. Sandweiss
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