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Red, White, and Black. America's Czech With Balance! looks at the well-known musician, Antonín Dvořák. Already a success in Europe, Dvorak was invited to New York City where he arrived in 1892. Once in the United States he connects quickly with both the city's and the nation's cultural variety. He comes to believe the roots of American music are all its cultures: African American, Native American, Ragtime, Louisiana Bayou, and more. A summer "...

Artist and author Gary Kelley takes a look at two musicians and how they merged in November 1936. Two men - half a world apart shared more than they would ever know. One was a cello prodigy who had performed the world and other played guitar and was a regular in the juke joints of Mississippi and the USA. A graphic novel that explores this unqiue tie between Pablo Casals and Robert Johnson.

The Spirit Lake massacre in March of 1857 was a dark moment in Iowa History, incited by indigenous resistance to their loss of homeland, culture, and people. A number of white settlers in northwest Iowa's lakes region were killed. Four female survivors were taken by lnkpaduta and his band of Dakota Sioux. Tracked by militias and military, they took their captives north into Minnesota, then west into what is now South Dakota. Come May 1857, two...

Addresses theoretical and practical aspects of building democracy in one-party systems. Contributions examine the progress and condition of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the two Chinas, the fall of Gorbachev, and the Serbian drive for hegemony in the Balkans.

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