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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
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| Predecessor | Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Globe Pequot Press |
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| Founded | 1949 |
| Founder | Walter Rowman and Arthur W. Littlefield |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Essex, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Distribution | Simon & Schuster Distribution Services (US) NBN International (UK) |
| Imprints | Many |
| Official website | globepequot |
The Globe Pequot Publishing Group (formerly Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group) is an American independent book publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers various regional and interest books in the trade books publishing. The company also formerly owned book distributor National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland until its closure in 2025.
The current company took shape when the University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the holding company.[1][2]
Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies.
Rowman & Littlefield acquired Globe Pequot Press in 2014.[3]
The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people whose innovations have advanced political science pedagogy.[4]
On May 29, 2024, Rowman & Littlefield sold its academic and professional publishing business to Bloomsbury Publishing. The sale excluded most of trade publishing business under Globe Pequot (but included Applause Books and Backbeat Books), school publishing business Sundance Newbridge, and book distributor National Book Network.[5][6] As the Rowman & Littlefield name and trademark were included in the sale, the holding company subsequently changed its name to The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, taking its name from one of its trade publishing imprints which the company retained.[7]
The Globe Pequot Publishing Group later sold Sundance Newbridge to Lerner Publishing in September 2024.[8] The company announced that National Book Network will be closed down, with distribution of titles moved to Simon & Schuster Distribution Services in the second half of 2025.[9]
Imprints formerly published by Rowman & Littlefield include:
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The Globe Pequot Publishing Group (formerly Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group) is an American independent book publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers various regional and interest books in the trade books publishing. The company also formerly owned book distributor National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland until its closure in 2025.
Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the late 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. It features vocal group harmony that carries an engaging melodic line to a simple beat with little or no instrumentation. Lyrics are simple, usually about love, sung by a lead vocal over background vocals, and often featuring, in the bridge, a melodramatically heartfelt recitative addressed to the beloved. Harmonic singing of nonsense syllables (such as "doo-wop") is a common characteristic of these songs. Gaining popularity in the 1950s, doo-wop was commercially viable until the early 1960s and continued to influence performers in other genres.
Alan Weeks (March 22, 1948 – October 10, 2015) was an American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, director, and theatre educator. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he began his career as a child actor in the Broadway productions of The Body Beautiful (1958) and The Octoroon (1961). In his late teens he portrayed Five Finger Finney and worked as a dancer in the original cast of Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand. He worked on more than a dozen Broadway shows as an adult, including roles in the musicals Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), George M! (1968), The Wiz (1976-1977), The Tap Dance Kid (1983-1984), and Big Deal (1985). He directed and choreographed the Tony Award nominated musical The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club (1992). Weeks made his film debut in Shaft (1971), and subsequently had roles in The French Connection (1971), Black Belt Jones (1974), Lost in the Stars (1974), Truck Turner (1974), and Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986) among other movies. He also worked as a guest actor in American television, and was a main cast member of the short lived sitcom Baker's Dozen (1982). In his later life he lived in East Nassau, New York and worked as both a director and actor in regional theatre in Albany, New York. He also worked as a drama teacher at several institutions, including Albany High School, Philip Livingston Magnet Academy, and The Sage Colleges. He died in 2015 at the age of 67.
A dory is a small, open boat characterised by a narrow flat bottom, high flaring sides, a pointed ends, and a narrow transom. Traditional dories are built with longitudinal planks whose natural curve helps determine the hull shape, with the bottom rising toward bow and stern in a pronounced rocker. It was traditionally propelled by rowing. Dories became especially associated with the North Atlantic fisheries. Banks dories were carried aboard larger fishing vessels, particularly on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and were designed to be nested or stacked on deck. The use of dories as working fishing craft declined with the spread of motorised fishing vessels, but dory forms continued in recreational sailing, river craft and other modern adaptations.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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