Offspring (Musical group)

Contents: Welcome -- Have you ever -- Staring at the sun -- Pretty fly (for a white guy) -- The kids aren't alright -- Feelings -- She's got issues -- Walla walla -- The end of the line -- No brakes -- Why don't you get a job? -- Americana -- Pay the man.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1998

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Pan American (Musical group)

Contents: Stars Friday -- Remapping -- Lent -- First position -- Tract -- Dark nest -- Noun -- Lake supplies -- Part one.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Kranky 1998

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Smithsonian 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

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Harper, 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

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Meier, Matt S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1993

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Davies, Ray

Contents: Americana (4:02) -- The deal (5:03) -- Poetry (5:05) -- Message from the road (2:57) -- A place in your heart (5:03) -- The mystery room (3:51) -- Silent movie (1:11) -- Rock 'n' roll cowboys (4:21) -- Change for change (3:23) -- The man upstairs (1:37) -- I've heard that beat before (4:03) -- A long drive home to Tarzana (4:59) -- The great highway (4:43) -- The invaders (3:47) -- Wings of...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Recordings 2017

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Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)

Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002

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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

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Colon, Willie

Contents: Aerolinea desamar -- Color Americano -- Me voy -- Estoy por ti rezando -- Carmelina -- Vida nocturna -- Colgaditos -- Hasta que te conoci.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Discos 1990

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All-American Rejects (Musical group)

Contents: My paper heart -- Your star -- Swing, swing -- Time stands still -- One more sad song -- Why worry -- Don't leave me -- Too far gone -- Drive away -- Happy endings -- Last song.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks Records 2003

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American Hi-Fi (Musical group)

Contents: Surround -- Flavor of the weak -- Bigger mood -- Safer on the outside -- I'm a fool -- Hi-fi killer -- Blue day -- My only enemy -- Don't wait for the sun -- Another perfect day -- Scar -- What about today -- Wall of sound.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Island 2001

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Hoobler, 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

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Young, Neil

Contents: Oh Susannah -- Clementine -- Tom Dula -- Gallows pole -- Get a job -- Travel on -- High flyin' bird -- Jesus' chariot -- This land is your land -- Wayfarin' stranger -- God save the queen.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise Records 2012

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American Mothers Committee

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. E. Tuttle Co. 1976

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Thaggert, 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

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Summary: "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009

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