The other night I had occasion to re-view James Whale's 1936 film version of the classic American musical "Show Boat." Unlike the much more inferior 1951 MGM film, this version is considered highly faithful to the original Broadway show, first produced in 1927 at the Ziegfield Theater. Based on Edna Ferber's 1926 bestselling novel of… Continue reading Racial ambivalence and the Old/New South of “Show Boat”
Month: May 2012
Public History’s Great Showing at the 2012 NCPH/OAH Annual Meeting
Digital public history was very much in the spotlight in Milwaukee, according to this HNN article. Glad to see public historians getting visibility for what they are doing in the digital realm. http://hnn.us/articles/public-history-had-great-showing-2012-ncphoah-annual-meeting