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The Ragtime Gazette

Ragtime is the triumphant Tony Award-winning musical portrait of America at the turn of the 20th century. The stories of three American families intertwine against the backdrop of a towering slate of historical figures. Together, through a dazzling array of musical styles from the era, they weave a stunning tapestry that reveals both the promise and prejudice of the American experience.

Ragtime runs October 24, 2023 – January 7, 2024

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Evelyn Nesbit

America's first supermodel, Florence Evelyn Nesbit

E.L. Doctorow

The author of Ragtime Edgar Lawrence Doctorow

Patriotism at the Beginning of the 20th Century

The dawn of the 20th Century America was on the brink of being a world power for the first time in its history. In turn, this led to a dramatic rise in American patriotism and national pride.

Emma Goldman

Radical anarchist champion of women’s equality and worker’s rights, Emma Goldman

J.P. Morgan

American financier and industrial organizer, John Pierpont Morgan

Henry Ford

American industrialist who revolutionized factory production through his creation of the assembly line, Henry Ford

And There Was Distant Music

The history of ragtime

Booker T. Washington

Influential spokesman for Black Americans from 1895 and 1915, Booker T. Washington

Harlem Transformed: The History of Harlem

Article from RAGTIME: The history of the Black Capital of the world

Harry Houdini

Magician, actor, pioneering aviator, historian, inventor and businessman Harry Houdini

When History Becomes Fiction

E.L. Doctorow and the Genre of Historical Fiction