Theodore Rosengarten
Encyclopedia
Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian
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He graduated from Amherst College
in 1966 with a BA, and received his PhD from Harvard for a thesis which became the National Book Award winning non-fiction All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, which was adapted into a one-man play starring Cleavon Little
at the Lamb's Theater.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
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He graduated from Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
in 1966 with a BA, and received his PhD from Harvard for a thesis which became the National Book Award winning non-fiction All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, which was adapted into a one-man play starring Cleavon Little
Cleavon Little
Cleavon Jake Little was an American film and theatre actor.Little was widely known for his lead role as Sheriff Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles. He also was the irreverent Dr...
at the Lamb's Theater.
Works
- All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw, Knopf, 1974, ISBN 9780394490847
- Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter, Authors Theodore Rosengarten, Thomas Benjamin Chaplin, Editor Susan W. Walker, Morrow, 1986, ISBN 9780688054120
- Land of Deepest Shade: Photographs of the South, authors Theodore Rosengarten, Photographs John McWilliams, High Museum of Art, 1989, ISBN 9780893813925
- "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life", Editors Theodore Rosengarten, Dale Rosengarten, University of South Carolina Press, 2002, ISBN 9781570034459
- Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, Authors Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout, Judith Ann Carney, Museum for African Art, 2008, ISBN 9780945802501
External links
- "The Hem of My Garment: An Interview with Theodore Rosengarten about the Making of "Nate Shaw"", George Abbott White and Theodore Rosengarten, The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter, 1980), pp. 787–800