Scott Ellsworth

Scott Ellsworth is the author of The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas, as well as The Secret Game, winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He has written about American history for The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, he is the author of Death in a Promised Land, his groundbreaking account of the 1921 Tulsa race riot. He lives with his wife and twin sons in Ann Arbor, where he teaches at the University of Michigan.

She Made Sure the Tulsa Race Massacre Was Never Forgotten

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In the years following the near-total destruction of Black Tulsa over two days in 1921, white citizens engaged in a collective amnesia. Mary Parrish refused to let that happen.

John Hope Franklin and Scott Ellsworth | Published May 31, 2021

The Cockeyed Dreamers Who First Climbed the Himalayas

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The first people who tried to scale the world's tallest mountains included college graduates and illiterates, pacifists and combat veterans, a beekeeper, and a Wyoming cowboy.

Scott Ellsworth | Published Mar 28, 2020