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    Dayton Aviation Heritage

    National Historical Park Ohio

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    I-75 north and south bound EXITS for FIRST and THIRD Streets are now CLOSED for construction. See Directions for alternative routes to our park. More »

Literary Reviews of Dunbar's Work

Book cover of Dunbar's book, Howdy Honey, Howdy.

Cover from Dunbar's book.

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Read critiques of Dunbar's works.

“Lyrics of Lowly Life”
The Outlook, January 2, 1897

Mr. Dunbar’s “Lyrics of Lowly Life”
The Dial, February 1, 1897

A Negro Poet
Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s “Lyrics of Lowly Life”
New York Times, February 6, 1897

An Afro-American Poet
H.T. Peck, The Bookman, February 1897

Paul Laurence Dunbar, the Negro Poet
The Outlook, May 1897

Paul Dunbar’s New Romance
New York Times, December 8, 1900

The Tuskegee Song
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1906

  • Dunbar's Newspaper, The Dayton Tattler Dunbar's Newspaper, The Dayton Tattler

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Did You Know?

Replica 1905 hangar at the Huffman Prairie Flying Field

The Wright brothers continued their flying experiments here on this cow pasture in Dayton, Ohio in 1904 and 1905, perfecting their machine and building the world's first practical airplane.