september preparing vaudeville experience

books:

Papers of Will Rogers : Wild West and Vaudeville, April 1904-September 1908, Volume Two

1 review
Will Rogers

University of Oklahoma Press, 2000

Beyond the hype of Will Rogers
I've read many books on Will Rogers-I find him fascinating on several levels. My initial interest was in his skill as a roper-I continue to be amazed at his talent in catches and especially trick roping. See his 1922 film "The Roping Fool" for an incredible display of his abilities. But Roger's role as a social commentator overshadowed his vaudeville career. Some have called him the first media ...

Though Justice Sleeps: African Americans 1880-1900

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

The period of Reconstruction that followed the end of the Civil War was a time of both tremendous promise and the deep conflict of ideas. At stake was the question of what the racial future of America would be. In the years between 1880 and 1900, the wonderful promise of a future of freedom that was made to black people by emancipation was broken. It was a promise that African Americans could conduct their daily lives with the assurance that ...

Wings of Gauze: Women of Color and the Experience of Health and Illness

1 review
Barbara Bair

Wayne State Univ Pr, 1993

Health issues for an important double minority
This anthology discusses health concerns faced by women of color. The contributors are diverse (women of color, white women, and even a couple of men). The writing styles are different (personal narrative, high cultural theory, public policy analysis, statistical numbers crunching, etc.). The topics vary too. I think the best chapters come near the end of the book and deal with breast cancer ...

The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81 (Selected Papers of Jane Addams)

1 review

University of Illinois Press, 2002

good job keep up the good work
Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 1, Preparing to lead 1860-81,edited by Mary Bryan, Barbara Blair and Maree De Angury is published by University of Illinois Press. It is 650 pages, has 47 illustrations (including a map of Mill Street, Cedarville as of 1875 by Ronald Beam). It has documents for the time in question including letters, school essays, school speeches and other documents ...