This is an 8000 word play based on the life and times of Harriet Tubman, one of the greatest heroines of the United States ever. There are some scenes from her youth as a slave and some from her years as Moses leading her people to freedom. There is a section in the play where abolitionists she knew speak about how the goal of eliminating slavery can be attained. Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Wendell Phillips, and John Brown each give a short talk based on their writings and beliefs. The rest of the play is mostly about Harriet Tubman. She did an amazing amount of courageous feats and...

List of Poems 1. Early History 2. Vanished Towns 3. The Crescent City Tanker Cars Explosion/1970 4. Letourneau Museum/Bourbonnais/Adrien Richard Heritage Preserve 5. Perry Farm/Exploration Station/Indian Caves 6. B. Harley Bradley House/Frank Lloyd Wright 7. Strickler Planetarium/Bourbonais 8. Riverview Historic District 9. Haigh Quarry 10. Kankakee Torrent/Geologic History 11. Native American History in Kankakee 12. French-Canadians in the Kankakee County 13. Coal Mining in Kankakee Area 14. Carbon Hill School and Museum 15. Bison Introduction Prject/Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie 16....

Martin Luther King is the giant of the mid-20th century. Brave and intelligent and dedicated to justice, equality, integration and equal rights. He achieved massive amounts of improvement for African-Americans in the United States and he did it non-violently. He was rewarded with a Nobel Prize. I fact he was the youngest man to ever be given that honor. This play touches on some of the major events in his life and the controversy surrounding his death. He was interviewed many times, but this play incorporates 3 interviews by national news writers. King was raised in a middle class environment...

It was the age of tycoons. The beginnings of heavy industry. Large amounts of capital accumulated by bankers and investment groups. Despoil the land. Dispossess the Native Americans. American imperialism throughout the hemisphere. Morals? Forget it. Money rules. George Pullman created the first luxury sleeper railroad car and it was used for Abraham Lincoln's funeral train. Many stops along the way and the Pullman car became a national sensation. Investors flocked around him offering huge amounts of lending capital. Enough for George to do one of the greatest social-industrial experiments...

This is a 6000 word play especially suitable for a staged reading. It features the words and wisdom of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became an orator and author. He presented the plight of the slave better than any abolitionist who had never experienced slavery. He became a conductor on the Underground Railroad and befriended other abolitionists and rights workers such as Wendell Phillips, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, and Susan B. Anthony, with whom he shared many stages speaking for women's right to vote. Douglass was called upon for his advice by...

This play examines the early days of psychoanalysis. Some of these pioneers include Freud, Jung, Breuer, Charcot, Stekel, and Adler. Our knowledge of the workings of the mind and its malfunctions is still very incomplete, but because of the working of these scientists there are some possible non-surgical, non-drug therapies for mental illness. They experimented with the unconscious, trying to understand it and hopefully correct problems with it that are resulting in difficulties for the patient. Most of us just experience the unconscious in our dreams. Regular memories seem to be able to be...