Bix, Cynthia Overbeck.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in America from the 1770s to the 1860s, examining the clothing and accessories of the common people and soldiers, as well as the men and women of the upper and middle classes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 BIXKrohn, Katherine E.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in the American West from the 1840s to the 1890s, examining the clothing and accessories of Native Americans, early pioneers, and the men and women of different social classes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-first Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 KROBehnke, Alison.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in America in the mid twentieth century, from every day clothes to high fashion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 BEHKing, Ross
Summary: "From a foremost author of historic Italy, this is a concise, star-studded retelling of the nation's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.4 LAMFord, Richard T. (Richard Thompson)
Summary: A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.009 FORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult FordSummary: From Paris to London, Monte Carlo to Milan, and Munich to LA, taste-makers Li Edelkoort, Gucci's Tom Ford, and Werner Baldessarini, of Hugo Boss, seek to identify the spirit of the age wherever they can find it-and then translate it into the next big trend in fashions. In this program, Edelkoort, Ford, Baldessarini, and others unravel the intricacies of clothing-oriented trend-spotting. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Twain, Mark
Summary: This exuberantly eclectic collection of Twain's writings includes parody, criticism, and commentary, all published after his death in 1910.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TWAMuseum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MUSSenker, Cath.
Contents: Introduction -- Betty Friedan : founder of the US women's movement -- Ella Baker : struggling for civil rights -- Barbara Castle : the most powerful woman in Britain -- Mary Quant : fighting for fashion freedom -- Women in 1970 -- Summary -- Other important figures -- Stories of women in the 1960s : timeline -- Find out more -- Glossary -- Index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist Wom SenkerAugustin, Marion
Summary: "In this informative graphic novel sequel, two kids and their grandpa continue their adventurous guided exploration of art and civilization beginning with the Renaissance and moving forward into modern art"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.04 AUGSummary: "From simple to sophisticated, elegant to excessive, what we wear says who we are. "Fashion" is the ultimate visual guide to everything ever worn. From the extravagance of Ancient Egypt, through the legendary fashion houses of Chanel and Dior, to the latest cutting-edge labels, this gorgeous collection of costume and dress shows how fashion reflects people and places, and captures the times in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 391.009 FASSchweikart, Larry.
Summary: Traces the rise of the United States as a global superpower from a conservative perspective, challenging popular views while offering insight into the country's influence on world politics, military affairs, and business practices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SCHModern Jazz Quartet
Contents: Medley. They say it's wonderful ; How deep is the ocean ; I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you ; My old flame ; Body and soul -- Between the Devil and the deep blue sea -- La Ronde. Drums ; Night in Tunisia -- Yesterdays -- Bags' groove -- Baden-Baden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1959
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ MODConnolly, Kieron
Summary: During the 1960s, America became embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war fighting communism in Vietnam. Antiwar sentiment led to mass youth protests, which occasionally turned deadly. With the Soviet Union breaking up in the late 1980s, the United States was the sole superpower. But it quickly became the target of Islamist terrorism, as 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the War on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.92 CONSummary: In Italy, the finest cloth in Europe is woven and hand-assembled to the exacting specifications of prestigious fashion houses-and it comes at a very steep price. This program visits an exclusive fabric fair, the wool looms of Zegna, the silk printing presses of T.J.S.S., a clothing assembly plant, and a fashion trade show to demonstrate how Italy's best craftspeople turn thread into cloth and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The brutal roots of the American slave trade are exposed in this program, focusing on the years 1450-1750 when Native Americans first encountered Europeans and when their world was transformed - and largely destroyed - by white settlers. Not only did the settlers exploit the natural wealth of the Americas, they also traveled to Africa, where they began a transatlantic slave trade that would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1998
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DU BLethbridge, Lucy.
Summary: A compassionate and discerning exploration of the complex relationship between the server, the served, and the world they lived in, Servants opens a window onto British society from the Edwardian period to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 LETAyers, Edward L.
Summary: The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. Even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 AYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 AYEAntonelli, Paola
Summary: Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a profound impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Arranged A-Z encyclopedia-style, it includes designs as iconic as Levi's 501 jeans, the pearl necklace and Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking, and as ancient and rich as the sari, the Breton shirt, the kippah and the keffiyeh. The catalog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391 ANTSummary: How does a fad differ from a fashion? Who decides what's fashionable? How is fashion affected by economic, social, and political events? Fashion Frenzy answers these and other questions as it tracks clothing trends across the turbulent 20th century with a teen narrator, a fashion expert, vintage videos, and a fabulous fashion show. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Cumings, Bruce
Summary: As Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight filled with untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, massacres and atrocities. He incisively ties America's current foreign policy back to this remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2010