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Musicals to help you with history class!

So I’m back at it with a text post you didn’t know you needed!

School is coming up and let’s face it, musicals are way more interesting than teachers rambling, power points, note taking, etc. So I’m here to maybe help you with that!

If I forgot any please let me know because most of these I don’t listen to but now that I’m finally taking a history course my junior year I thought I’d help others that are struggling.

1500 // Two men are imprisoned for foreclosing a monastery by the Spanish Inquisition: Man of La Mancha

1590 // French Village Life: Martin Guerre

1776 // The signing of the Declaration of Independence: 1776

1776 // The Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin’s foreign adventure to form an alliance: Ben Franklin in Paris

1789 // The French Monarchs being taken to the guillotine (French Revolution): 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille

1792 // The first 100 years in The White House:  A White House Cantata (or 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)

1793 // The French Revolution: Scarlett Pimpernel

1755-1804 // Alexander Hamilton, a determined founding father who never stopped: Hamilton

fun fact: he’s my first cousin eight times removed

1804-1806 // The exploration of The Louisiana Purchase: Adventures of Lewis and Clark

1812 // The French Invasion on Russia (this is also based off the novel War and Peace): Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812

1832 // June Rebellion or The Paris Uprising: Les Misérables

1767-1845 // Andrew Jackson, the American “Hitler”: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

1853 // The westernization of Japan: Pacific Overtures

1861-1865 // The American Civil War: The Civil War

1865 // Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Assassins

1871 // This is about the 72 days that workers governed France: Paris Commune

1881 // Assassination of James A. Garfield: Assassins

1893 // This covers the trial of Lizzie Borden, a Massachusetts girl accused of murdering her father and stepmom with an axe: Lizzie the Musical

1893 // New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote, thanks to Kate Sheppard: That Bloody Woman

1899 // The Newstrike in New York against Joseph Pulitzer and William Hearst: Newsies

1900 // This musical is very informative when it comes to immigration racial tensions at the turn of the 20th century (also includes known historical figures, e.g. Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, and Emma Goldman): Ragtime

1904 // A Jewish family in Imperial Russia who faces struggling with their traditions and the Tsar forcing them out of their village: Fiddler on the Roof

1912 // The sinking of the Titanic on it’s first voyage: Titanic

1913 // The KKK and Anti-Defamation League: Parade

1914-1918 // A family and their struggles and triumphs during World War I: Oh! What a Lovely War

1924 // The trials of two women, Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner, accused of killing their significant others: Chicago

1925 // Cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and his cave exploring adventures: Floyd Collins

1860-1926 // Annie Oakley, prize-winning sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Annie, Get Your Gun

1905 // This musical is about Rasputin and the fall of the Russian Empire: Beardo

1907-1927 // The daughter of many conspiracy theories, and of Tsar Nicholas II, who watched the Russian Empire fall: Anastasia

(the musical itself isn’t very factual, but if you enjoy listening to it, you’ll definitely enjoy the history and hard truths of the Romanov family)

1931 // The Scottsboro Trial, which created two rights for criminal defendents: The Scottsboro Boys

1931 // Night club setting, but gives you an overall Nazi Germany feel, and includes one Jewish character: Cabaret

1867-1932 // The life of Margaret Brown, a brave woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic: The Unsinkable Molly Brown

1932-1934 // Bonnie and Clyde, two criminals that traveled and murdered people during The Great Depression: Bonnie & Clyde

1942 // A Japanese family is removed from their home and are moved to a Japanese-American internment camp: Allegiance

1945 // Following the end of World War II, this musical shows the reality of loss and PTSD that we tend to not talk about: Bandstand

1939-1945 // A story of a Jewish internment camp in Czechoslovakia: Signs of Life

1924-1950 // Tells the story of a Jewish couple (Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya) as World War II begins: LoveMusik

1946-1952 // First Lady of Argentina, Eva Perón: Evita

1962 // American Civil Rights movement, with talks about segregation in schools and on TV: Hairspray

1963 // Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Assassins

1975 // Racism, colonialism, vietnam war, but is also problematic: Miss Saigon

1979-1981 // A musical that mixes Yiddish Americans and the AID crisis that shows the heavy struggles small families can have: Falsettos

1984-1985 // The coal miner’s strike of England with some mentions of Margaret Thatcher: Billy Elliot

2001 // 9-11 Attacks: Come From Away

Please feel free to message me or comment one I missed and I will gladly edit it!