Filter By Series
American century series American family albums Exposed! More myths about American history Leaders of the American Revolution Library of American lives and times Pioneering African Americans Primary sources in American history (New York, N.Y.) The Black American journey Women, gender, and sexuality in American history World Book's documenting historyFilter By Series
American century series American family albums Exposed! More myths about American history Leaders of the American Revolution Library of American lives and times Pioneering African Americans Primary sources in American history (New York, N.Y.) The Black American journey Women, gender, and sexuality in American history World Book's documenting historyWoods, Michael
Summary: Describes environmental disasters, including oil spills, chemical leaks, toxic pollution, and nuclear accidents, and discusses how they impact people, wildlife, and the environment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.702 WOOGilio-Whitaker, Dina
Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 GILSummary: An anthology of seminal American environmental writing from the past two centuries considers their influence on the ways in which people view the natural world and includes pieces by such figures as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John James Audubon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 AMEKouzes, James M.
Summary: In this book, the authors explore the question of leadership and legacy. They examine the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a lasting impact. These essays are grouped into four categories: significance, relationships, aspirations, and courage. In each essay the authors consider a thorny and often ambiguous issue with which today's leaders must grapple issues...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 KOUSmithsonian American Art Museum
Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLOJones, Monique L.
Summary: "We are familiar with a handful of African Americans who are mentioned in American history books, but there are also countless others who do not get recognized in mainstream media. Their actions may not have appeared to shake the world, but their contributions to shifting American culture were just as groundbreaking. African Americans have made history by challenging and changing the American...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 JONHarper, Judith E.
Summary: Portrays the treatment and struggles of African Americans during the Revolutionary War and their contributions to the war effort.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HARFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISMeier, Matt S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1993
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 MEIAdams, Colleen.
Summary: Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the Women's Rights Movement in America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central Primary Source 2003
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Levy, Janey
Summary: "It's something many Americans are certain is a solid fact: Columbus discovered America. But it's not true. First, Columbus never landed on the North American mainland. And second, how can someone "discover" a place that's already home to millions of people? In this lively and engaging book, readers will uncover the truth behind many myths about explorers in the Americas. Accessible text...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 LEVSantella, Andrew
Summary: Examines the life of the famous civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., from his early family life and experiences in education to his history-shaping speeches and the international responses to his assassination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINSummary: "A history of the African American civil rights movement, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 AFREdwards, Mickey
Summary: A former congressman draws on his first-hand experience with legislative battles to present a solution-based, practical way to break the stranglehold of the political party system and banish the negative effects of partisan warfare.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 EDWHoobler, Dorothy
Summary: Describes the often heroic stories of Mexican American immigrants, largely through their own words and pictures. Includes original documents such as selections from letters, memoirs, and newspapers to relate their experiences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0468 HOOSummary: This edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for Environmental Resources and Statistics. Section I: Resources, provides detailed contact information for thousands of information sources, including Associations & Organizations, Awards & Honors, Conferences, Foundations & Grants, Environmental Health, Government Agencies, National Parks & Wildlife Refuges, Publications, Research...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Publishing 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 363.7 ENVRankin, Hugh F.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1973
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 RANWagner, Heather Lehr.
Summary: Profiles the life and career of Paul Revere, known for his midnight ride warning colonists of approaching British troops.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 REVAmerican Mothers Committee
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: C. E. Tuttle Co. 1976
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 MOTMaxwell, John C.
Summary: In his nearly thirty years of teaching leadership, John Maxwell has encountered this question again and again: How do I apply leadership principles if I'm not the boss? It's a valid question that Maxwell answers in The 360 Degree Leader voted best business book of the year by Soundview Executive Book Summary subscribers, and 2006 recipient of their Harold Longman Award. In this award-winning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Business 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.5 MAXThaggert, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THAStoll, Mark
Summary: In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes they espoused. Stoll discovers that specific denominational origins corresponded with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 STOGedacht, Daniel C.
Summary: Surveys the life of George Washington, the son of a Virginia tobacco planter who became the first president of the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PowerPlus Books 2004
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.American Institute of Architects
Summary: A reference for building design and construction professionals. The twelfth edition features: up-to-date codes and standards, with over 300 new drawings, tables, and diagrams; new coverage of building resiliency, emphasizing the building envelope; material properties and performance analyses, with expanded materials selection; environmental factors including climate, thermal comfort,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2016