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Standing at History's
intersection
BY STEVE KRAUSE
Nancy Lusignan Schultz defines her work thusly: "I work at the intersection of
history, literature and religion."
The history and literature part of that equation is easy enough to understand. She
loves history and is considered Swampscott's pre-eminent female historian.
Schultz has written several books on history and was an English professor at Salem
State until her retirement last year. Also, one of her essays — a study of the Harriet
Beecher Stowe novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and how it relates to the Holocaust in
Europe during World War II — won an EXTRA! Award presented by the Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi, which is the nation's oldest and most selective honor society
for all academic disciplines.
Swampscott resident
Nancy Lusignan Schultz,
Ph.D, dug into the history
of 3 Boynton St., a local
home included in the
20th-century travel guide
for Black Americans called
The Green Book.
PHOTOS: SPENSER HASAK