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Fortress Europe, the immigration situation Great courses (Compact disc) Great courses (DVD) History of crime and punishment New Press people's history People's history Primary sources in American history (New York, N.Y.) Revisioning American history Story of civilization ; pt. 11 The Wide Angle Collection: Human Stories, Global IssuesWilliams, 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 WILEdge, Laura Bufano
Summary: A history of the United States prison system and its many changes over the years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2009
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Summary: "With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places-- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Facing mounting domestic and international pressure for a fair and transparent framework of laws, China is racing to reshape the rules of its Communist society. Hundreds of thousands of judges and lawyers have been trained in the past 25 years, but with senior judges under direct control of the state and citizens taking to the streets in record numbers, this transformation has been anything but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Graetz, Michael J.
Summary: A fresh and revelatory look at the Warren Burger Supreme Court finds that it was not a “moderate” or transitional court, as often portrayed, but a conservative one that still defines the constitutional landscape we live in today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 347 GRASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISMiller, Brandon Marie.
Summary: A social history of the American colonial period with a focus on the daily lives of women, including European immigrants, Native Americans, and slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.2 MILKeys, Barbara J.
Summary: The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to the profound challenge of the Vietnam War and its tumultuous aftermath. Instead of looking inward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0973 KEYDunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
Summary: "Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 DUNIrons, Peter H.
Summary: A thirty-six lecture course that traces the development of the United States Supreme Court from its founding to the present, with a focus on the landmark cases that have reflected conflicts in American society.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 347 IRO PART 1Adams, Colleen.
Summary: Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the Women's Rights Movement in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central Primary Source 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.42 ADAZinn, Howard
Summary: America's story from the point of view of its women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Features analysis of some of the most important events in this country in the past 100 years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press Audio 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 ZINSummary: Although China’s government has pledged to revise its policies toward political dissidents, that promise remains largely unfulfilled. This program reveals egregious cases of political oppression occurring in recent years, countering the picture China painted of itself as it promoted the Beijing Olympics. Pushing back against bureaucracy and official stonewalling, the program examines the work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Spitzer, Michael
Summary: Examines music in our everyday lives, music in world history, and music in evolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SPICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 SPITheoharis, 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 THEWiegand, Wayne A.
Summary: "Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library authorities have argued that the public library functions primarily as a civic institution necessary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 020 WIEGriffin, Emma.
Summary: "This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities for political action. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.941 GRIRaphael, Ray.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 RAPHarris, Duchess
Summary: Looks at different divisions of law enforcement on both the national and at the community level, discussing how they protect citizens, reduce crime, and serve their communities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 363.2 HARSummary: Central to the aims and ideals of the European Union is a single currency standard based on the euro. This wide-ranging program, divided into 12 segments, presents the history of the EMU, the unification timetable up to 2002, the convergence criteria, and the coins and banknotes themselves; provides background on the euro member states and the European Central Bank; examines the impact of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Nielsen, Kim E.
Summary: Covers the entirety of U.S. disability history, from pre-1492 to the present. Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. It places the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it's a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.4 NIESummary: Five decades after the inception of the Geneva Refugee Convention, the European immigration system is on the verge of collapse as a flood of people fleeing persecution and violence threatens to engulf the E.U. This program looks at the processing of refugees and asylum-seekers in Sweden and Britain-typified by a lengthy detention punctuated by interrogation and a summary legal hearing-as the UN...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Villareal, Raymond A.
Summary: This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman found in an Arizona border town, presumed to be an illegal immigrant, disappears from the town morgue. To the young CDC investigator called in to consult with the local police, it's an impossibility that threatens her understanding of medicine. Then, more bodies, dead from an inexplicable disease that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VILDurant, Will
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1975