Summary: America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 NEWWaldstreicher, David
Summary: "Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHEATLEY, PHILLIS WALSummary: In the early 20th century, community centers called settlement houses were established across America. This documentary relates the history of one such facility-the Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House, known in its time as "the greatest settlement house in the U.S. for Negroes." The program profiles its first director, W. Gertrude Brown, who touched the lives of generations of African-Americans,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Gregson, Susan R.
Summary: Examines the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to publish a book, discussing her early life as a slave in Boston in the 1700s, the education and kind treatment she received from her owners, her experiences after being granted her freedom, and her later years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WHEATLEY GRERinaldi, Ann.
Summary: A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1996
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RINBenoit, Peter
Summary: Discusses the Salem Witch Trials, including their historical context, what happened to the accused, and how the trials changed the American legal system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 345.744 BENSummary: Nuremberg Trials begin - Nazi leaders are indicted for their crimes against humanity (part 1)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Summary: Nuremberg Trials begin - Nazi leaders are indicted for their crimes against humanity (part 2)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Summary: Nuremberg Trials begin - Nazi leaders are indicted for their crimes against humanity (part 3)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1945
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Tackach, James.
Summary: Focuses on the trial of the abolitionist who was hanged for treason and murder following his attempt to capture a military arsenal and arm the slaves for revolt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7116 TackaBoyer, Crispin
Summary: The pets of Mount Olympus Pet Center are a true team. But when a chicken named Hermes shows up one day, things take a turn, and before the team knows it, the Oracle has spoken and the mysterious Trials of Hairy-Clees begin! Join Zeus the overconfident hamster, Athena the wise cat, Ares the treat-loving pug, Poseidon the proud pufferfish, and Demeter the loyal cricket on another adventure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD BOYLawrence, Sandra
Summary: "All the grim, gruesome and gory bits of history they never teach you in school! From the betrayal and murder of Julius Caesar by Marcus Brutus to the gunpowder plot to overthrow the English government of Guy Fawkes to the outlandish trials of witches, this book is packed with men, women, and historical events that involve unfair trials and unspeakable treachery. Others included are: La...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little bee books 2016
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Summary: "From atoms to X-rays and from the Big Bang to the Internet, brilliant breakthroughs by successful scientists have changed the world again and again. Dip inside this book to read the stories of 100 scientists and their amazing discoveries..." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM WheatleyPhillips, Shawn.
Contents: We (3:37) -- The ballad of Casey Deiss (6:12) -- Victoria Emmanuele (4:28) -- Bright white (2:54) -- L ballad (7:22) -- Early morning hours (5:23) -- I took a walk (4:49) -- Early in the night (4:27) -- She was waitin' for her mother at the station in Torino and you know I love you baby but it's getting too heavy to laugh (4:52) -- Hey Miss Lonely (3:34) -- Do you wonder (2:57) -- Moonshine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&M 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PHIPhillips, Mark J.
Summary: "In every decade of the twentieth century, one sensational murder trial riveted public attention and at the time was called "the trial of the century." This book tells the story of each murder case and the dramatic trial that followed. Starting with the murder of famed architect Stanford White in 1906 and ending with the O.J. Simpson trial of 1994, the authors recount ten compelling tales...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PHIDellinger, David T.
Summary: "n the fall of 1969 eight prominent anti-Vietnam War activists were put on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One of the eight, Black Panther cofounder Bobby Seale, was literally bound and gagged in court by order of the judge, Julius Hoffman, and his case was separated from that of the others. The activists, who included Abbie Hoffman, Jerry...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.73 LEVRiordan, Rick
Summary: Leaving the safety of the demigod training ground, a disgraced Apollo embarks on a quest across North America to find a dangerous ancient-world Oracle while navigating the challenges of the evil Triumvirate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Riordan 2017Summary: Robert Jackson, a 53-year-old Supreme Court Justice from New York, appeared before the Nuremberg Tribunal on November 20, 1945. He was the chief prosecutor in the first-ever trial to put an entire national government in the dock. While governments and armies had been waging wars for centuries—an action not punishable according to international law—the actions of the German Nazi party during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Brown, Jordan
Summary: An introduction to the science that powers favorite amusement park rides reveals why a roller coaster does not need an engine and how bumper cars can move without gasoline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRONardo, Don
Summary: Describes the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc, along with biographical information and facts about the political and social forces that led to her being burned at the stake as a witch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.026 NardoHortis, C. Alexander
Summary: "Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony--before even Lizzie Borden--there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation's debut media circus. On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The conclusion of United States v. Burr.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The Iraqi High Tribunal was created to investigate and try Saddam Hussein and members of his regime for their alleged crimes. Participants and observers hoped that by exposing the crimes of the regime, Iraq could move beyond the anger and hatred bred by Saddam allowing a new era of democracy to unfurl. But Iraq's new political leaders respected neither the court's independence nor the rule of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Rosen, Jeffrey
Summary: "The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2024