| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html>. Created and maintained by the Library of Congress. Reviewed July 2004.
Like a good vaudeville show, the Web site American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870–1920, tries to present something for everyone. It succeeds in much of this effort, particularly with introductory essays and indexing that illuminate connections among variety theater, gender, urban life, and other important themes in American history.	1
A variety show presents separate acts to form a complete bill of entertainment. This site, part of the Library of Congress American Memory project, opens with an introduction that links from the phrase "The American Variety Stage" to a valuable essay on the place of variety theater in American culture and society from 1870 to 1920. A link within this entry at "forms of variety theatre" explores vaudeville, burlesque, minstrelsy, musical comedy, and more.	. . .

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