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Summary: Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.1 HAKChatters, James C.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.701 CHANelson, Craig
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.45 KURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.45 NELSummary: Archaeological experts and others challenge the theory that the first Americans arrived in America around 13,500 years ago and suggest possibilities that they could have arrived even sooner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMEPeacock, Doug.
Summary: For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CounterPunch 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 PEASummary: Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEAppleby, Joyce Oldham.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 APPWills, Shomari
Summary: "The astonishing untold history of America's first black millionaires - former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties - self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison. Between the years of 1830...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WILKeppeler, Jill
Summary: "The idea of the American frontier means a lot to many Americans' images of themselves and their country. Everyone has heard stories or watched movies showing tough, brave settlers crossing the continent, daring harsh weather, hostile natives, and rough terrain to nobly "tame" the frontier and expand the United States. But is this image true to life? Young readers will get a wider perspective...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 KEPLevy, Janey.
Summary: Who were the earliest Americans? When, how, and from where did they enter and spread across the continent? And what is their relationship to modern Native Americans? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theoriesand the discoveries that prove and disprove themare highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970 LEVMikoley, Kate
Summary: This book explores the meaning, history, and purpose behind several Native American ceremonies and celebrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 MIKLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Boston to experience the start of the American Revolution as it happens.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LIMMiller, Adrian
Summary: Award winning author Adrian Miller vividly tells the stories of the African Americans who worked in the presidential food service as chefs, personal cooks, butlers, stewards, and servers for every First Family since George and Martha Washington. Miller brings together the names and words of more than 150 black men and women who played remarkable roles in unforgettable events in the nation's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 MILLimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Rush Revere rides again! Saddle up with Rush Limbaugh's really good pal for a new time-travel adventure. "Whoa there, young historians! Before we go rush, rush, rushing off anywhere, I'd like a moment. I'm Liberty, Rush Revere's loquacious equine companion -- his trusty talking horse! Always at the ready to leap from the twenty-first century into America's past, that's me. When he says 'Let's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J LIMSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. But this time of hope didn't last long and instead, a deeply segregated United...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk His What SmithGagne, Tammy
Summary: In the years following Christopher Columbus's expedition, Europeans made homes for themselves in the Americas and pushed out the indigenous peoples already living there. Many popular stories about life in the early American colonies have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Colonization dives into the myths about colonization and brings the truth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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Summary: Summary: A compelling account of pre-Columbian America covering topics such as history and mythology, archaeology and ethnography, all in a magnificient narrative of the rise and fall of America's ancient civilizations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 FAGHancock, Graham
Summary: Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock has made it his life's work to find out -- and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion. We've been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago -- amongst the last...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 HANSummary: Alan Shepard is 1st American in space (very short piece from year end retrospective) Rocket on launching pad, blasting off, in flight. Also CU Shepard in the nose cone of the Rocket.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1961
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Gear, W. Michael.
Summary: A saga of the first Americans, telling the story of the vision-filled man who, with the help of a courageous woman, led his people from their old world to a new life in prehistoric North America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEABarnes, Ian
Summary: Explores the history of the native peoples of North America, from the early arrival of humans from Asia and their migration through the continent, the first and subsequently devastating contacts with European explorers and settlers, to the present day plight of the surviving tribes and their attempts to adapt to modern society.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 BARHirsh, Michael
Summary: At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Here we meet the brave souls who--now in their eighties and nineties--have chosen at last to share their stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 HIRSummary: 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 AFRJenkins, Sally.
Summary: Journalist/author Jenkins revives a forgotten piece of history and crafts an inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you guessed that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you'd be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007