Forgotten lives. Revealing conflicts. American history retold.

National award-winning author Scott D. Seligman writes historical narrative nonfiction, mostly about “hyphenated Americans,” that uncovers overlooked lives, forgotten conflicts and surprising episodes in American history.

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The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906

Antisemitism and the Battle Over Christianity in the Public Schools

The Chief Rabbi's Funeral

The Untold Story of America's Largest Antisemitic Riot

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902

Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

The Third Degree

The Triple Murder that Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice

Tong Wars

The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's Chinatown

About Scott D. Seligman

Scott D. Seligman is a national award-winning author of narrative non-fiction with a special interest in the history and biography of hyphenated Americans. He holds an undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton University and a master's degree from Harvard University.

Fluent in Mandarin, he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China for eight years and reads and writes Chinese. He has worked as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S. Congress, lobbied the Chinese government on behalf of American business, managed a multinational public relations agency in Beijing, served as spokesperson and communications director of a Fortune 50 company and taught English in Taiwan and Chinese in Washington, DC.