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American History

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Performing Flight

From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism

By Scott Magelssen
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History

A century of human aviation and space travel, seen through the lens of performance

Provocative Eloquence

Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

By Laura L. Mielke
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies

Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance

Provocative Eloquence

Theater, Violence, and Anti-Slavery Speech in the Antebellum United States

By Laura L. Mielke
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies

Shows how theater was essential to the anti-slavery movement’s consideration of forceful resistance

A Player and a Gentleman

The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor

Edited by Amy E. Hughes & Naomi J. Stubbs
Subjects: Theater and Performance, History, American History, Biography, Writing

Recaptures antebellum history by tracing the journey of actor and prodigious journal-keeper Harry Watkins

The Captive Stage

Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

By Douglas A. Jones
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, History, American History, African American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

Spectacles of Reform

Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America

By Amy E. Hughes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, History, American History

Reveals the crucial role that spectacle played in American activism and reform movements in the 1800s

Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex

Race, Madness, Activism

By Tony Perucci
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era

Parlor Ponds

The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970

By Judith Hamera
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, American History, Theater and Performance

The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium

Performing America

Cultural Nationalism in American Theater

Edited by Jeffrey D. Mason & J. Ellen Gainor
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, American History, American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How theatrical representations of the U.S. have shaped national identity

Lines of Activity

Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity

By Shannon Patricia Jackson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, American History, Gender Studies, American Studies

Applies the interdisciplinary insights of performance studies to the life of Chicago's Hull-House settlement

Passing Performances

Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History

Edited by Robert A. Schanke & Kimberley Bell Marra
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, History, American History, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed gendered expectations of their time

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