The forty years 1880 to 1920 marked the golden age of the American theatre as a national institution, a time when actors moved from being players outside the bo

Discusses the reasons Italian people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultu

Frederick E. Hoxie is director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library. He coedited (with Joan Mark) E. Jan

A History of American Tonalism: 1880-1920 will change standard theory on American art history with a new paradigm that places the origins of American modernism

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