The Domicylon

Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith

Since we didn’t get to hear any music in class when we talked about Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, here they are! Ma Rainey – Southern Blues (1923) Ma Rainey – Farewell Daddy Blues (1924) Ma Rainey – See See Rider Blues (1924) Ma Rainey – Slave to the Blues (1925) Ma Rainey – Little Low Mama Blues (1926) Ma Rainey [...]

History 325 Proposal: The Zipper

EDIT: Visit the completed project and learn about the background, development, adoption, and impact of the zipper. I intend to investigate the history of the zipper for my American History and Technology class project. My project will be divided into several parts, discussing the zipper’s antecedents, its invention, its possible alternatives, and its adoption and interaction [...]

The Zipper

I plan to do my American Technology and Culture project on the one, the only… zipper! Exciting, no? Image: Seattle Fabrics, Inc., “Zippers,” JPG file, http://www.seattlefabrics.com/zippers.ht… (accessed February 2, 2009).

Gentleman’s Agreement Part 3: Bibliography and Pledge

Bibliography: Bronski, Michael. “Remembering Gregory Peck, and a Not So Gentlemanly Agreement.” Forward, June 20, 2003. http://www.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu:… (accessed November 8, 2008). “By the Flank.” Time.com, January 15, 1945. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl… (accessed November 8, 2008). Crowther, Bosley. “Anti-Semitism Assaulted Boldly on the Screen.” New York Times, November 16, 1947. http://www.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu:… (accessed November 8, 2008). Crowther, Bosley. “‘ Gentleman’s Agreement,’ Study of Anti-Semitism, Is [...]

Gentleman’s Agreement Part 2: Analysis

Gentleman’s Agreement was one of the first films to deal directly with anti-Semitism. It primarily examines a more covert, subtle kind of bigotry that sometimes exists in people without them even realizing it. The movie depicts and discusses the social discrimination against Jews on several levels, including exclusion from employment and housing, as well as [...]

Gentleman’s Agreement Part 1: Context

Anti-Semitism has existed in America since it’s very founding. The prejudice towards Jews based on religious differences, economic jealousy, social competition, and political conflict found in Europe came with Europeans to their colonies in North America [1]. In the mid-19th century there was an influx of immigrants, including Jews, coming to America. Around this time, [...]

Jo Mielziner, Designer

“The theatre artist has been called a jack-of-all-trades. Perhaps a better name would be hijacker-of-all-trades, for no man’s lifetime is long enough to learn all about ‘drama’ if he also has to learn about design and the history of art, if he has to master the intricacies of color and light, if he is to [...]

Susan Hilferty, Costume Designer

The following biography was written for Susan Hilferty’s personal website. Susan Hilferty has designed over 300 productions from Broadway to the Bay area- and internationally including Japan, London, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Recent designs include Wicked (2004 Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination) August Wilson’s [...]

Glory

As a secondary source Glory certainly has some issues, especially with smaller details, and even some not so small details (shouldn’t the recruits of the 54th Regiment have been mostly free blacks?), but overall the movie depicts a fair representation of the Northern opinions towards blacks, as well as blacks’ opinions of themselves. I think [...]

The Carol Burnett Show

And now for something completely different. Carol Burnett’s classic Gone with the Wind parody, Went with the Wind… Vicki Lawrence makes this sketch.