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Stephen F. Foster, Historical Truth & the Novel

By Joseph Skibell
Years ago, I attended a play about Stephen F. Foster. According to this play, Foster didn’t actually compose all those songs — “Camptown Races,” “Oh, Susanna!” “Beautiful Dreamer” – rather he purchased them from a slave who died penniless and unknown.
Songs bought for a song, as it were.
I asked the playwright if this [...]

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History and Twitter

If you haven’t given Twitter a shot, you should.  I must admit that I was pretty skeptical at first.  Random strangers talking about random things.  Is that interesting, really?
It turns out that it is.
You’ll find a boatload of historians, academics, writers, and otherwise fascinating folks sharing thoughts and links to some of the most intriguing [...]

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