The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental valu

The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental valu

The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another.

From ballet to burlesque, from the frontier jig to the jitterbug, Americans have always loved watching dance, whether in grand ballrooms, on Mississippi riverbo

Following the American Revolution, French observers often viewed the United States as a laboratory for the forging of new practices of liberté and égalité, i