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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CON

Cochran, Ford

Summary: "Discover awe-inspiring natural landscapes and explore the geological histories and mysteries of our national parks with National Geographic."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 557.3 WON

Cobb, Daniel M.

Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NAT

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NAT

Summary: For most Americans, the history of the United States is built on a set of long-accepted beliefs about events, each of which resonates in the nation's collective memory. But what if those beliefs, however familiar, don't really tell the whole story? Our knowledge of history - or what we believe to be history - is the lens through which we view and interpret the world. And when that lens is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SKE

Kloss, William.

Summary: Series of 24 lectures (each approximately 30 min. long) surveying the history of American art from its colonial origins until just before World War I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 Masterworks

Summary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BEF

Contents: Disc 1: 1. Petersburg: Union digs its own grave,1864 -- 2. Syracuse: Athens's second front, 413 B.C. -- 3. Carrhae: The Parthian shot, 53 B.C. -- 4. Red Cliffs: Cao Cao's bad day, 208 A.D. -- 5. Barbarian Gate: Adrianople, 378, Pliska-811 -- 6. Fourth Crusade: Byzantium betrayed, 1204 -- disc 2: 7. Kalka River: Genghis Khan's general, 1223 -- 8. Courtrai: knights versus shopkeepers, 1302 -- 9....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 HIS