Betsy Golden Kellem

Betsy Golden Kellem is an entertainment scholar, regional Emmy-winning public historian and author of Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth Century Circus.

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When singing rats and bears became beloved mascots of ’80s and '90s childhoods.

This comfort food classic began as a battlefield remedy.

When Zadock Dederick unveiled a mechanical man, the press called him a 'new Frankenstein.'

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