1900–1919 Popular Music: Ragtime, Broadway Songs, Patriotic Music, Irish Ballads, Early Blues, Tin Pan Alley, and Songs Before Radio Took OverPopular music from 1900 to 1919 lived in a different world than the hit songs that came later. Before commercial radio became part of everyday American life in the 1920s, most people heard songs through […]
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1915 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1915World-Changing Event: A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915, killing 1,195 people, including 128 Americans, pushing the United States steadily toward entering a war it had been watching from a careful distanceAmerica-Changing Event: D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a
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In Flanders Fields by John McCrae*originally published in Punch MagazineIn Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
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