You may have seen it on Broadway ... or maybe your high school gym. The Tony Award-winning musical Newsies is a favorite for school productions because the story centers around newspaper-hawking kids who stand up to titan-of-industry Joseph Pulitzer. 

Of course, we've learned that we shouldn't take our history lessons from Disney. So we've called up Vincent DiGirolamo (Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys) to give us the REAL story of the famous 1899 newsboys strike that inspired the Disney film. 

You can find DiGirolamo's newest essay in the collection Newsies, Newsies — Read All About It!: Essays on the Film and Broadway Productions. 

You may have seen it on Broadway ... or maybe your high school gym. The Tony Award-winning musical Newsies is a favorite for school productions because the story centers around newspaper-hawking kids who stand up to titan-of-industry Joseph Pulitzer.&nbsp;
Of course, we've learned that we shouldn't take our history lessons from Disney. So we've called up Vincent DiGirolamo (<a href="https://vincentdigirolamo.com/crying-the-news-book/">Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys</a>) to give us the REAL story of the famous 1899 newsboys strike that inspired the Disney film.&nbsp;
You can find DiGirolamo's newest essay in the collection <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Newsies-Newsies-Read-All-About-Productions/dp/1476691789">Newsies, Newsies &mdash; Read All About It!: Essays on the Film and Broadway Productions</a>.&nbsp;

Bob Crawford searches for the best historians and experts to answer listener questions about American history — from the Revolutionary War to rock & roll feuds. Got a question? Send it to AmericanHistoryHotline@gmail.com.

Bob Crawford searches for the best historians and experts to answer listener questions about American history &mdash; from the Revolutionary War to rock &amp; roll feuds. Got a question? Send it to AmericanHistoryHotline@gmail.com.

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What's the Real Story of Disney's "Newsies"? 

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