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Reel dancing was a fine way to spend time in 1800s America. It was popular again Monday during an American Civil War ...
Mellon Foundation gave $1.25M to an help restore Jim Crow-era entertainment destination Mosquito Beach's hotel, restaurant ...
Some of these are humorous: In Michigan, until 2015, it was illegal to dance to the national anthem ... in the former’s case, a Civil War, to end slavery and give women the right to vote.
"I think seeing these women stand up for themselves and come into their own is what makes them shine as individuals. For ...
The voluminous zoot suit was an innovation of Harlem dance halls, its generous cut seen as transgressive at a time when fabric was being rationed in the run-up to World War II, Professor Miller said.
An inflatable advertising sign dances outside ... of the Civil Rights Movement, which gained momentum in part due to the economic and social changes of the postwar era. But FDR and Vice President ...
When members of Eugene M. Connor American Legion Post 193 noticed that the Civil War-era cannon in Legion Park was showing signs of disrepair, they decided to use some of the money they received ...
But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–49 Civil War. Tens of thousands died in the early Cold War-era battles ...
The GAR Memorial Association and the Civil War museum in the Marketplace at Steamtown are raising funds to purchase a Civil War era sword belonging to Lt. Ezra Griffin, Providence section, now ...
America’s favorite pastime is swinging into Middletown next month, but it’ll look a little different than the modern-day game ...