Happy 250th Birthday America!

David & Katherine take a journey through the history of the United States of America through productions on Broadway and in Hollywood as drawn by Al Hirschfeld.

From the baptism of Virginia Dare in The Lost Colony to Hirschfeld’s last TV Guide cover of the American Flag in the post 9/11 world, Hirschfeld’s works cover over 200 years of American history.

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Follow along with the show notes to view all the works mentioned in this episode:

TV Historial Figures, 1976

The Lost Colony, 1939

The Crucible

Ben Franklin in Paris, 1964

1776

Show Boat

Jerome Kern

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Irving Berlin

Annie Get Your Gun

Abe Lincoln of Illinois

Mr. Lincoln, 1980

Abraham Lincoln Bust, 1919

Miss Liberty, 1949

Leonard Bernstein

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 1976

Teddy and Alice, 1987

Ragtime, 1998

Rags, 1986

The Ziegfeld Follies/Oklahoma!, 1943

Oklahoma!

George M. Cohan

Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1989

George M!

Sweet Adeline, 1929

Charles Butterworth

Annie

Of Thee I Sing

Let ‘Em Eat Cake

Louisiana Purchase, 1940

As Thousands Cheer, 1934

Five Smash Hits on the December Stage, 1933

Nine Old Men of the Supreme Court

I’d Rather Be Right, 1938

National Art Week Poster

Billy Rose Proposals, C. 1943

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944

Mr. President, 1962

The Missiles of October, 1974

1968 Presidential Candidates, 1967

Jackie: An American Life, 1997

Perle Mesta is Having a Party, 1960

A&E Biography, 1997

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1999

Angels in America, 1993

Politically Incorrect, 1994

Jackie Mason in The World According to Me, 1986

Johnson Inauguration Gala, 1965

Eisenhower’s Inauguration, After Covarrubius, 1953

My Year in the White House Doghouse, 1969

American Flag for TV Guide, 2001

Assassins, 1991

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