Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROSmithsonian 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLOEvans, Bill
Summary: A newly unearthed discovery of Bill Evans, recorded in Greenwich Village on October 23, 1968, includes two complete, never before released concerts.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Resonance Records 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Little Walter
Contents: My babe -- Sad hours -- You're so fine -- Last night -- Blues with a feeling -- Can't hold out much longer -- Juke -- Old mean world -- Off the wall -- You better watch yourself -- Blue light -- Tell me mama.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LITBernier, Celeste-Marie
Summary: While the many public lives of Frederick Douglass - as the representative - 'fugitive slave', autobiographer, orator, abolitionist, reformer, philosopher and statesman - are lionised worldwide, If I Survive sheds light on the private life of Douglass the family man. For the first time, this book provides readers with a collective biography mapping the activism, authorship and artistry of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Edinburgh University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BEREvans, Bill
Contents: Funkallero -- The two lonely people -- Sugar plum -- Waltz for Debby -- T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune) -- Re: person I knew -- Comrade Conrad.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1971
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ EVAMiller, Adrian
Summary: "Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery has gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the South and beyond, barbecue is one of the nation's most distinctive culinary arts. And people aren't just eatingit; they're also reading books and articles and watching TV shows about it. But why is it, asks Adrian Miller--admitted 'cuehead and longtime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.76 MILLittle Walter
Contents: Juke -- Can't hold out much longer -- Boogie -- Blue midnight (alt.) -- Mean old world -- Sad hours -- Don't need no horse -- Tell me mama -- Off the wall -- Quarter to twelve -- Blues with a feeling -- Too late -- Fast boogie -- Lights out -- Fast large one -- You're so fine -- Oh baby -- I got to find my baby -- Last night (first version) -- You better watch yourself -- Mellow down easy -- My...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chess/MCA 1993
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LITSummary: Though often fighting for a country that did not recognize their rights or even their humanity, African Americans have fought courageously in every American war. Even though they often knew they would return to civilian lives of limited opportunities and unequal treatment, they served their nation with conviction and distinction. This volume offers inspiring profiles of African American service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: In this episode, when the paper trail runs out, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits scientists who are using DNA analysis to trace ancestral roots. With results in hand he meets with leading historians of the slave trade and discovers more fascinating details about his own ancestry. Finally, Professor Gates and a guest journey to Africa, where they visit the port from which the guest’s patrilineal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The stark, deceptively simple photographs of Walker Evans have become a part of America's collective memory, forever capturing the places and faces of times long gone. In this program, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez outlines Evans' life while talking with Jeff Rosenheim, curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Evans' close friend William Christenberry, about the late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Mead, Walter Russell
Summary: "A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity drive our country's foreign policy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 MEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 MEABall, Erica
Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, C.J. BALBlakey, Art
Contents: Infra-rae (6:54) -- Nica's dream (11:49) -- It's you or no one (5:33) -- Ecaroh (6:00) -- Carol's interlude (5:33) -- The end of a love affair (6:41) -- Hank's symphony (4:36) -- Weird-o (7:05) -- Ill wind (2:51) -- Late show (7:07) -- Deciphering the message (6:27) -- Carol's interlude (alt take) (6:13).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BLAEvans, Walker
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 EVASummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Blakey, Art
Contents: Webb City / Bud Powell (12:08) -- How deep is the ocean / Irving Berlin (10:00) -- Sky lark / Hoagy Carmichael (8:54) -- Gypsy folk tales / Walter Davis Jr. (12:23).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amigo 1982
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present a thorough exploration of African American history and culture. The first half of the book bridges a major gap in our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DREThaggert, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THAArt Ensemble of Chicago
Contents: Coming soon (1:31) -- African woman = Umafazi w ese Afriki (13:54) -- Fundamental destiny (9:13) -- Fresh start (6:41) -- Khauleza = Hurry up (2:43) -- The bottom line (5:31) -- Black man = Indoda emnyama (9:18)
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Publisher / Publication Date: DIW 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARTSummary: Belgium's Tervuren Museum contains the world's largest collection of Central African art, which consists of approximately 250,000 pieces. Noted journalist Paul Solman discusses the power and the true price of this collection with art historian Ramona Austin and journalist/author Adam Hochschild. In the immense Congo region, there are more than 250 different cultures, so there is a broad range...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Listening to our Past is a piecing together of the family histories of four of the series participants. The episode explores the post-World War I “Great Migration” of African-Americans from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as those who stayed in the South during the period of Jim Crow segregation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. also begins an intriguing examination of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Brunk, Thomas W. (Thomas Walter)
Summary: "This book presents a comprehensive history of Pewabic Pottery in Detroit, Michigan, its founders, and its place in the Arts and Crafts movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021