LibGuides: Scenic & Costume Design: Guide for THE 212 & THE 311: Whipping Man

Sources on The Whipping Man

Writing the Play His Curiosity Led Him To
Interview with the playwright and others following the opening of "The Whipping Man" in New York City, 2011.
Candles, Matso, Wine and Some Unusual Hosts
Review of production at City Center Stage 1, New York City
Study Guide for Whipping Man
Hartford Stage classroom tool created for K-12 educators

Resources on John Lee Beatty, Director

Sustained Achievement in Science Design: John Lee Beatty
Interview with the set designer. By Ellen Lampert-Greaux, 2003.
Proof Positive
Article about Beatty's set designs for Proof Positive and The Dinner Party. By David Barbour, 2000.

Sources on Related Topics

These are a sampling of information found through the library's catalog and databases. Don't forget to try different combinations of subject terms or variations, such as Judaism, Jews, Jewish, Passover or seder, or Blacks, Negro, slaves, enslaved or slavery. Also, pay attention to subjects assigned to books and articles for clues to other terms to search.

Jewish People in Civil War-Era South

American Jewry and the Civil War by Bertram Wallace Korn
Call Number: E184.352 .K67 2001
ISBN: 9780827607385
Publication Date: 2001
Long considered a noteworthy title on the Jewish role in early American history this book focuses on the Jewish community as a whole during the tumultuous years of the war, and on its effort to raise the concept of human rights and equality above restrictions based on race or religion.
The Jewish Confederates by Robert N. Rosen
Call Number: F220.J5 R67 2000
ISBN: 9781570033636
Publication Date: 2000
This book recounts the lives of Southern Jews from the 1700s until well after the Civil War. It also explains why so many Jews chose the South as their home and why they remained loyal to it, arguing that Southern society and the Confederate army and navy may have been more tolerant of Jews than the North.
Jews and the Civil War by Adam Mendelsohn; Jonathan D. Sarna (Editors)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780814708590
Publication Date: 2010
A collection of essays on the experience of Jewish soldiers and civilians during the Civil War are grouped into seven thematic sections--Jews and Slavery, Jews and Abolition, Rabbis and the March to War, Jewish Soldiers during the Civil War, The Home Front, Jews as a Class, and Aftermath.

Jews, Race, and Southerness
By Allison Schottenstein. From The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 24: Race, 2013
Passover in the Confederacy
By Sue Eisenfeld. From The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War, 2016.
Taking Up the Cross: Conversion of Black and White Jews in the Civil War South
By Lauren Winner. From Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South, 2000.

Experiences of Enslaved African-Americans

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses by Theodore Dwight Weld
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780807869581
Publication Date: 2011
Compiled by a prominent abolitionist, this book generates a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling day-to-day conditions of the over 2,700,000 men, women and children in slavery in the United States. Readers will find one of the most meticulous records of slave life available in this text.
Reconstruction Era Reference Library by Ann Burg; Lawrence W. Baker
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780787692162
Publication Date: 2004
These three volumes provide information on post-Civil War America, from the end of the war in 1865 to the Compromise of 1877.
Slavery in America by Orville Vernon Burton (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781414430133
Publication Date: 2007
Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.

Whipping
By T. E. Robinson. From Gale Library of Daily Life: Slavery in America, vol. 2, 2008.