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...Revolution, a prime example, was followed by farmer uprisings over debts and taxes-the Shay and Whisky rebellions. In the mid-1800s, the nativist Know-Nothings fought rising Irish political power by killing Roman Catholics, burning churches and ultimately controlling 48% of the House of Representatives. In 1863, the Irish, fearing that Negroes would take their jobs while they were drafted into the Civil War, conducted a frightful race riot in New York City that killed an estimated 2,000 people and injured 8,000. The Civil War killed 500,000 soldiers-the equivalent of 3,000,000 in today...
...December 12 MR. DICKENS OF LONDON (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Sir Michael Redgrave as Charles Dickens conducts British Actress Juliet Mills on a tour of the city that he and his characters-Oliver Twist, Bill Sykes and Nancy, David Copperfield, Tiny Tim and Scrooge-knew in the 1800s...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s...
...MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s...
...forgotten names of American art are William Sidney Mount and Richard Caton Woodville. Both were Easterners-Mount from Long Island, Woodville from Baltimore -both enjoyed a measure of fame for their lusty colloquial vignettes of the U.S. in the mid-1800s, and both have been largely ignored in the century since. Now, as art historians rummage around to reconstruct the country's long-neglected artistic heritage, the two are getting a new and appreciative audience (see color page...