Ragtime Resources

Wanna read more E.L. Doctorow or learn more about him? Why not check out his website?

Find out more about the greatest escape artist ever. He puts the cast of Escape From Alcatraz to shame.

You've read the book, now see the play! Don't worry, they made it more family-friendly.

Info on the film made from the book.

PBS did a special about Evelyn Nesbit and the murder of Stanford White. It's full of juicy turn of the century gossip.

PBS special about what America was like in the year 1900, featuring many of the characters from the novel.

There's some debate about whether Peary was the first to the Pole. Nothing hotter than a debate about frozen Arctic explorers.

Oddly enough, Emma Goldman came to his lectures, something that's not in Ragtime. C'mon Doctorow: that would have been an awesome scene.

A good article for getting to know J.P. Morgan (at least in his Ragtime-era incarnation).

Check out what the movie looked like: the voiceover is booming and awesome.

See the woman that inspired the crime of the century, and became the first sex symbol.

Just imagine it's Coalhouse playing.

The film series that Tateh is inspired to create at the end of Ragtime

Here's the opening number, in all its jangling piano glory.

See the photos Jacob Riis took of immigrants and hear a story about it.

Hear a speech by William Howard Taft.

See the painter mentioned throughout Ragtime

The Charles Dana Gibson image of Evelyn Nesbit that Younger Brother has on his wall, plus more images of America's first sex symbol.