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Live Online Professional Development Seminar--Buffalo Bill, American Idol: An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Seminar
| Seminar Date: | 2010-11-09 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-09-28 |
| Announcement ID: |
179252 |
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Buffalo Bill, American Idol: An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Online Seminar for history, literature and humanities teachers
Between 1883 and 1916, Buffalo Bill's Wild West—an extravaganza of riding, roping, shooting, Indian attacks, and stage coach robberies—gave audiences throughout the world an image of the American West so vivid that, for millions both here and abroad, it became the American West. In the process William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, established himself as one of, if not the, most famous American of his era. How did he achieve his fame? Why were audiences so captivated by his shows? How did he define the West? Built around the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE historical documentary film Buffalo Bill, this seminar will explore themes that illuminate American life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that still resonate today, themes like the rise of mass entertainment, the creation of celebrity, the power of popular culture, and the role of the West in American national identity.
Seminar Leader: Joy Kasson, Professor of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, National Humanities Center Fellow
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010
Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST)
Registration Deadline: Nov. 2, 2010
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