Living History: Bringing the Past to Life February 25, 2008

Six Mondays, February 25-March 31, 2008, 7:00-8:15 p.m.
Fee: $115.00 CEUs: 0.75
Fee if registering after February 11: $125
Fee for Rice alumni: $105

Learn about history in a new way from the mouths of those who shaped it. In this performance series, local actors who have researched the lives of some of historys most absorbing characters will bring their characters to life in presentations showing the major roles they played in shaping history. See the beginnings of the 19th-century fight for womens suffrage through the eyes of Susan B. Anthony and follow the rise of Bessie Smith from her poverty-stricken childhood to her reign as empress of the blues. Ride along with Buffalo Bill Cody through the origins of the Wild West and experience the quiet strength of Rosa Parks as she ignites the growing African American civil rights movement. Join Betsy Ross as she designs the stars and stripes and travel with Miguel de Cervantes on his journey to become the first novelist of the western world.

More information and registration: http://www.gscs.rice.edu/NccCourseView.asp?Mode=View&clCourseID=584

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