{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Our quest to exploit the \u201cmusical theater about American political history\u201d moment now takes a jog back in time, to a 1855 farce...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/142837709408/", "html": "<p>Our quest to exploit the \u201cmusical theater about American political history\u201d moment now takes a jog back in time, to a 1855 farce about Manifest Destiny that retold a story of first contact with pointed jabs at <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_%28military%29\" target=\"_blank\">then-contemporary filibusters</a>.<b><i><br/></i></b></p><p><b><i><big><big><a href=\"http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021250298;\" target=\"_blank\">Po-ca-hon-tas, or, The Gentle Savage</a></big></big></i></b><br/></p>"}