William Foster wins election to the Pennsylvania state legislature. His victory proves his popularity, but does little to ease his financial straits. July 4: Stephen Collins Foster is born at the ...

Her brother Stephen became one of America's most beloved popular composers, but death silenced the music of Charlotte Susanna Foster forever when she was only nineteen. Born on December 14 ...

Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the songs of Stephen Foster and other popular white composers. Brought to America in captivity and sold into slavery, Africans carried ...