Smith, Charles R.
Summary: Constructed brick by brick, the White House was created by human hands, many of them slaves', whose hard labor helped create the symbol of this country, in the story of how the official residence and principal workplace of the United States presidents was built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.302 SMILewis, Cicely
Summary: "The White House tells the history of the United States, including slavery. Enslaved people were involved with every stage of building the structure. Learn more about the president's home and how to honor this history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 LEWWhite, Jonathan W.
Summary: "Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 WHIRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Esposito, Joseph A.
Summary: In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted forty-nine Nobel Prize winners -- along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers -- at a famed White House dinner. Among the guests were J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was officially welcomed back to Washington after a stint in the political wilderness; Linus Pauling, who had picketed the White House that very afternoon;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 ESPSlade, Suzanne.
Summary: Shares the story of how George Washington had a home built for the future presidents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 SLACollison, Campbell
Summary: "Over the years, U.S. presidents have lived in the President's Palace, the Executive Mansion, and the President's House. What about the White House, you may wonder? Well, it's the same building! But this iconic landmark wasn't given its current name until 1901. What else is there to learn about the White House? Read this book to find out!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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Summary: Traces the story of the burning of the White House by the British during the War of 1812 from the perspectives of its witnesses, including First Lady Dolley Madison, a British officer, and a nine-year-old slave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 SUTHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 306.3 HOLHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLKurtz, Jane.
Summary: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time -- long overdue -- for all people to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2008
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Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSSouza, Pete
Summary: Go behind the scenes of the West Wing--into the Oval Office and Situation Room, aboard Air Force One, and beyond--with #1 bestselling author and former presidential photographer Pete Souza.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.932 SOUMorley, Jefferson.
Summary: Portrays how the 19th century struggle against slavery erupted in Washington DC, thrusting the ambitious District Attorney Francis Scott Key into a uniquely American battle for justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MORBrower, Kate Andersen.
Summary: "America's first families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into their true character like the people who serve their meals and make their beds every day. Full of stories and details by turns dramatic, humorous, and heartwarming, [this book] reveals daily life in the White House as it is really lived through the voices of the maids, butlers, cooks, florists, doormen, engineers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.3 BROCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 975.3 BROWalton, Kathryn N.
Summary: "The White House, more than 200 years old, remains one of the most recognizable landmarks of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, this structure--also called the Executive Mansion--is a home and an office building. Readers will be fascinated to learn what's behind the stunning façade through this valuable volume's at-level, insightful text, fascinating fact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.3 WALHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOLMesnier, Roland
Summary: In this memoir and cookbook, Roland Mesnier, executive pastry chef to five presidents, tells the story behind each of the holiday gingerbread houses he created for display in the White House State Dining Room. Chef Mesnier also provides step-by-step instructions and templates for constructing and decorating a gingerbread house in the home kitchen. During the holidays, thousands of guests are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: White House Historical Association 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5092 MESLong, Michael G.
Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSSummary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISMufti, Shahan
Summary: Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest Jewish service organization in America. The heavily armed attackers quickly took control of the building and held more than a hundred employees of the organization hostage inside. A little over an hour later, three more men entered the Islamic Center...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: Packard closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off more for political advantage than for love, and finally passed over entirely with the accession of their brother to the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VICTORIA PACMiller, Adrian
Summary: Award winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2017