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Foreword / by Doug Reside -- 1776: the Second Continental Congress -- Dearest enemy: the American Revolution -- Ben Franklin in Paris: Revolutionary War diplomacy -- Hamilton: the life of Alexander Hamilton -- Bloody bloody Andrew Jackson: the life of Andrew Jackson -- Big River: Mark Twain's America -- Bloomer girl: the women's reform movement and the Underground Railroad at the dawn of the Civil War -- Shenandoah: the Civil War -- The Civil War: the Civil War -- Miss Liberty: the construction of the Statue of Liberty -- Annie get your gun: the life of Annie Oakley -- Show boat: the era of floating theaters in the American frontier -- Newsies: the Newsboys' Strike of 1899 -- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the White House and its occupants during the nineteenth century -- Teddy & Alice: President Theodore Roosevelt and his daughter Alice -- Ragtime: racism and immigration at the turn of the twentieth century -- Oklahoma!: territorial Oklahoma before statehood -- The music man: life in small-town America in 1912 -- Parade: the trial of suspected child murderer Leo Frank -- Fiorello!: the rise to fame of Fiorello La Guardia -- Gypsy: Gypsy Rose Lee and the demise of vaudeville -- Chicago: Chicago murderesses Beulah May Annan and Belva Gaertner -- Floyd Collins: Floyd Collins in Kentucky's Sand Cave -- The Scottsboro Boys: the 1931 trial of nine Black teenagers accused of rape -- Baby case: the Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- Of thee I sing/Let 'em eat cake: politics in the 1930s -- The Will Rogers follies: the life of Will Rogers, framed by American vaudeville -- Pins and needles: the labor movement of the 1930s -- South Pacific: racial prejudice during World War II -- Allegiance: the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II -- Bandstand: returning home after World War II -- Finian's rainbow: racism in postwar America -- Million dollar quartet: four rock 'n' roll legends meet in Memphis -- Li'l Abner: Cold War politics during the 1950s -- Bye bye Birdie: Elvis Presley is drafted -- Fly blackbird: the civil rights movement -- Freedom riders: the civil rights musical: the civil rights movement -- Hair: San Francisco's "Human be-in" and the hippie lifestyle in New York's East Village -- Assassins: presidential assassins, successful and foiled, throughout history. |
