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 1915 America-Changing Event: D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation premiered on February 8, 1915, becoming the first feature-length blockbuster film in American history and simultaneously one of the most racist and damaging pieces of popular entertainment ever producedMust-See Movies: The Birth of a Nation, The Tramp (Charlie
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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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