The Ragtime Gazette
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
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