Laura Keene
Author: Ben Graf Henneke
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes a chapter on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Author: Ben Graf Henneke
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes a chapter on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Author: John Creahan
Publisher: Philadelphia : Rodgers Publishing Company
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Bogar
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2013-11-04
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1621570835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApril 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford’s Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, “Burn the place down!” This is the untold story of Lincoln’s assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit. In Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination, historian Thomas A. Bogar delves into previously unpublished sources to tell the story of Lincoln’s assassination from behind the curtain, and the tale is shocking. Police rounded up and arrested dozens of innocent people, wasting time that allowed the real culprit to get further away. Some closely connected to John Wilkes Booth were not even questioned, while innocent witnesses were relentlessly pursued. Booth was more connected with the production than you might have known—learn how he knew each member of the cast and crew, which was a hotbed of secessionist resentment. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination also tells the story of what happened to each of these witnesses to history, after the investigation was over—how each one lived their lives after seeing one of America’s greatest presidents shot dead without warning. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination is an exquisitely detailed look at this famous event from an entirely new angle. It is must reading for anyone fascinated with the saga of Lincoln’s life and the Civil War era.
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0689868588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNancy takes her best friends, George and Bess, to the new spa in town. However, weird things keep happening that may drive business away, and Nancy is determined to find out who's responsible.
Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2023-06-25
Total Pages: 122
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.
Author: Thomas Baker
Publisher:
Published: 1861
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Faye E. Dudden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780300070583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a series of biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Dudden provides a discussion of the conflicted messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman. It both showed women as sex objects and provided opportunities for careers.
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0448489074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNancy must figure out the connection between a mysterious diary and a suspicious house fire.
Author: Adrienne Keene
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1984857959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation An American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award Young Adult Honor Book! Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers in this beautifully illustrated collection. From luminaries of the past, like nineteenth-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis—the first Black and Native American female artist to achieve international fame—to contemporary figures like linguist jessie little doe baird, who revived the Wampanoag language, Notable Native People highlights the vital impact Indigenous dreamers and leaders have made on the world. This powerful and informative collection also offers accessible primers on important Indigenous issues, from the legacy of colonialism and cultural appropriation to food sovereignty, land and water rights, and more. An indispensable read for people of all backgrounds seeking to learn about Native American heritage, histories, and cultures, Notable Native People will educate and inspire readers of all ages.
Author: Joseph Adelman
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 344
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