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Anti-imperialist movements United States Blacks Caribbean Area Politics and government Internationalists United States History Latin America Relations United States United States United States History United States History, Military United States Race relations United States Relations Latin America Working class United States HistoryUnited States
Contents: Legislative Branch -- Judicial Branch -- Executive Branch: the President -- Executive Branch: Departments -- Executive Branch: independent agencies and government corporations -- Other international organizations -- Selected bilateral organizations -- Commonly used agency acronyms -- History of agency organizational changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Claitor's Publishing Division 2017
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 353 UNISummary: Plunge headlong into the great battles and meet the heroes that have shaped the armed forces. With a combination of government documents, combat footage and extensive interviews, this set tells the story of all five branches of the military.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BATUnited States
Summary: "Presents the full text of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol's report, which addresses the origins of the insurrection, how it was organized and funded and the role of Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 JANUnited States
Summary: "The formal findings of the bipartisan Congressional inquiry into the coordinated attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, with a foreword by attorney and Emmy-winning MSNBC anchor Ari Melber" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 JANSummary: Plunge headlong into the great battles and meet the heroes that have shaped the armed forces. With a combination of government documents, combat footage and extensive interviews, this set tells the story of all five branches of the military.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BATUnited States
Summary: "The official report from the House Intelligence Committee on Donald Trump's secret pressure campaign against Ukraine, featuring an exclusive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biographer Jon Meacham. For only the fourth time in American history, the House of Representatives has conducted an impeachment inquiry into a sitting United States president. This landmark document...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 IMPDunbar-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 DUNUnited States of America (Musical group)
Contents: The American metaphysical circus -- Hard coming love -- Cloud song -- The garden of earthly delights -- I won't leave my wooden wife for you, Sugar -- Where is yesterday -- Coming down -- Love song for the dead che -- Stranded in time -- The American way of love: pt. 1 Metaphor for an older man/pt. 2 California -- Osamu's birthday -- No love to give -- I won't leave my wood wife for you, Sugar...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sundazed Music, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK UNIAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the last two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADANielsen, 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 NIEUnited States
Summary: Presents the text of the Constitution of the United States of America, highlighted by full-color illustrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welcome Books 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 342.7302 CONAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the first two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of Thomas Jefferson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 ADASummary: Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNTWeigley, Russell Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.03 WEIUnited States
Summary: The complete text of the United States Constitution, including all of the amendments. This beautiful little book is sure to be prized by Americans of all ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applewood Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7302 CONZinn, Howard
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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Contents: The troubled 1970's -- Sex, families, stagflation -- The political world of the mid-1970s -- Carter, Reagan, and the rise of the right -- "Morning again in America" -- America and the world in the 1980's -- Bush 41 -- "Culture wars" and "decline" in the 1990's -- Immigration, multiculturalism, race -- Political wars of the early Clinton years -- Prosperity, partisanship, terrorism --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 PATOrtiz, Paul
Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ORTStone, Oliver.
Summary: In this companion to the ten-part documentary series the authors outline a "people's history" of the American empire and its rise and decline, aided by the latest archival findings and recently declassified documents and scholarly research. They challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this look at the dark side of American history. They introduce readers to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 STOSummary: Chronicles the history of the United States from colonial origins to the beginning of the 21st century. Lectures presented by Allen C. Guelzo, Eastern University; Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia; Patrick N. Allitt, Emory University.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 HISCall number: DVD 973 HIS VOL. 1
Call number: DVD 973 HIS VOL. 2
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Project Gutenberg 2007
Bronski, Michael
Summary: "A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, while simultaneously arguing that LGBT people not only shaped but were pivotal in creating our country. Using numerous primary documents and literature, as well as social histories, Bronski's book takes the reader through the centuries--from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 BROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 BROMays, Kyle
Summary: "Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021