Carefully taught : American history through Broadway musicals / by Ginell, Cary

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Doug Reside -- 1776 : the Second Continental Congress -- Dearest enemy : the American Revolution -- Ben Franklin in Paris : Revolutionary War diplomacy -- Hamilton : the life of Alexander Hamilton -- Bloody bloody Andrew Jackson : the life of Andrew Jackson -- Big River : Mark Twain's America -- Bloomer girl : the women's reform movement and the Underground Railroad at the dawn of the Civil War -- Shenandoah : the Civil War -- The Civil War : the Civil War -- Miss Liberty : the construction of the Statue of Liberty -- Annie get your gun : the life of Annie Oakley -- Show boat : the era of floating theaters in the American frontier -- Newsies : the Newsboys' Strike of 1899 -- 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue : the White House and its occupants during the nineteenth century -- Teddy & Alice : President Theodore Roosevelt and his daughter Alice -- Ragtime : racism and immigration at the turn of the twentieth century -- Oklahoma! …”