In this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase listenership and wages the United States. toured Europe for (and only) time from February until November 1895. According clippings that she provided African American newspapers, singer p...

Abstract This article argues that the German emperor Wilhelm I drew on self-staging, symbolic acts and monarchical federalism to establish himself as new polity’s figurehead after 1871. By drawing cultural approaches political history, this demonstrates because imperial office was embedded in a federal context institutional geographical dominance therefore ruled out, used travel, ceremonial spe...