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Scott Reynolds Nelson

Scott Reynolds Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man (about railroad legend John Henry). He teaches American history at the College of ­William and Mary.

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Potted History

Learning more about slave life in South Carolina from a legendary potter-poet

by Scott Reynolds Nelson | Monday, September 01, 2008

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by Wendy Smith

Stephen Sondheim, that giant of musical theater, died on November 26. In our Autumn 2007 issue, Wendy Smith celebrated Sondheim’s already enormous legacy, spanning his 1957 Broadway debut (West Side Story) to gutsy later works like Assassins (1990). Sondheim remained a force in the Theater District despite its increasingly commercialized landscape, and “as long as musical theater exists,” Smith wrote, “his entire repertory will continue to be fruitfully restaged and reexamined.”

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