A brief history of black dance in America, includes dance pioneers in jazz dance, ballet, and modern dance.

From the PBS series, American Masters, this is the biography for the American modern dance innovator, Martha Graham.

A nice brief overview of her life and a list of web sites and links that provide information about modern dancer Isadora Duncan.

In the course of the novel's development, Jane Austen was a significant contributor to the emergence of the modern novel as we know it today. The review of Emma in the Quarterly Review (October 1815) makes clear to a modern audience how...