Frye, David
Summary: "A survey of walls throughout history and their role in shaping society."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 FRYRooney, David
Summary: "A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.1 ROOMarozzi, Justin
Summary: A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 MARCatton, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 CATStearns, Peter N.
Summary: Thirty-six lectures that provide a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe, beginning with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ending with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2007
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 STE PART 1Call number: CD 909 STE PART 2
Call number: CD 909 STE PART 3
Williams, David
Summary: "A People's History of the Civil War is "bottom up" history, illustrated with little-known anecdotes and first-person testimony. David Williams brings to life the brutal, mundane experiences of the war - such as the mutilated bodies which, in the words of one soldier, lay "thick as autumn leaves" over the fields after every major battle - and the harsh realities of battlefield medicine and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 WILSummary: A superb documentary, using much footage hitherto unknown. This is a program that presents both sides of this still-controversial subject in its own words and using its own footage. The result is a solid lesson in history, a moving testimonial to the valor and romanticism of young men, and an indispensable tool for understanding modern Spanish literature and history.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Fagan, Brian M.
Summary: Summary: A compelling account of pre-Columbian America covering topics such as history and mythology, archaeology and ethnography, all in a magnificient narrative of the rise and fall of America's ancient civilizations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 FAGSummary: "Around 10,000 years ago, the small group of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers that had walked the earth for millennia gave way to increasingly complex Neolithic villages of agricultural producers. Around 4,000 - 5,000 years later, people had gathered in urban settings, established laws, and developed culture and political systems. This remarkable change took place in Mesopotamia, on the North China...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 930 ORICall number: DVD 930 ORI
Miller, William J.
Summary: This book illustrates the everyday lives of soldiers during the Civil War, depicting cavalry, medicine, spies, special regiments, and more. Over 1,000 images are published here for the first time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7813 MILTheoharis, Jeanne
Contents: Introduction: the political uses and misuses of civil rights history and memorialization in the present -- The long movement outside the south: fighting for school desegregation in the "liberal" north -- Revisiting the uprisings of the 1960s and the history of injustice and struggle that preceded them -- Beyond the redneck: polite racism and "the white moderate" -- The media was often an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323 THEHumble, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 HUMStokesbury, James L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 STOSummary: "A revised and updated version of What Your Second Grader Needs to Know, Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education, with readings and activities in Literature, Mathematics, History, science, and the arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 372 WHAFitzharris, Lindsey
Summary: "This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 FITFrench, Marilyn
Summary: Origins is the first of four volumes of a momental, readable, and unprecedented history of women throughout the world. The internationally celebrated author of The Women's Room, Marilyn French, spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers and prominent historians examining women's lives and activities in civilizations and societies spanning the ages. -Goodreads
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4209 FREDavis, William C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 DAVMillard, Anne
Summary: "From the first cities of Sumer to the empire of the Incas, travel around the world and through 5,000 years of history in this illustrated guide to see where and how ancient peoples lived. From North America to New Zealand, this book takes you on a trip around the world and through history to visit ancient cities and empires, showing who lived where and explaining the unique features of each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 930 MILGuernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fairfax Press 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.7 GUERhodes, James Ford
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 RhodeDoyle, Don Harrison
Summary: When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed 'perish from the earth.' In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 DOYConnolly, Kieron
Summary: The United States was born in the violence of revolution, and it experienced equally violent growing pains that resulted in the Civil War. That conflict would be particularly bloody, with more American lives lost than in both World Wars combined. Following the end of the war, the violence of the Reconstruction era, the Jim Crow South, and ongoing Indian wars continued to convulse the former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2017