Mancall, Peter C.
Summary: Presents a comprehensive of the American Revolution, from the early settlement of the continent, through the crises of the 1760's and 1770's, to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and finally to the election of 1800. Also examines the role played by African Americans and Native Americans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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Hämäläinen, Pekka
Summary: There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous peoples fight back, they cannot stop the onslaught. White imperialists are destined to rule the continent, and history is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 HAMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native HamamainenHayes, Derek
Summary: Explores the U.S.'s past from a geographical perspective, presenting more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world and discussing important events and cultural changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 911 HAYDavis, David Brion.
Summary: Davis begins with the dramatic Amistad case, which vividly highlights the international character of the Atlantic slave trade and the roles of the American judiciary, the presidency, the media, and of both black and white abolitionists. The heart of the book looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 DAVSummary: Between 1500 and 1800, the world was transformed. The peoples of Europe, Africa, and America, brought together in an often violent colonial process, created a New World and transformed the old. These lectures examine the relations of the colonies with the native people, the relations between the British colonies and the colonial outposts of Spain, France, and the Netherlands, and how British...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BEFFirme, Tom
Summary: "Learn about the history of colonialism throughout the world in this volume of History Summarized. Each volume in this series concisely surveys a major historical event or interrelated series of events or a major cultural, economic, political, or social movement." -- Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.32 FIRWinegard, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles)
Summary: Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: 973.2 GOUMurolo, Priscilla
Summary: A comprehensive look at the history of the United States through the prism of working people. In this fully updated new edition, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, and three entirely new chapters on global labor developments, worker activism in immigrant communities, and the 2016 election and unions' relationships to Trump. -- Adapted from back...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 MURKloss, William.
Summary: Series of 24 lectures (each approximately 30 min. long) surveying the history of American art from its colonial origins until just before World War I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MasterworksSummary: This edition of PBS Scientific American Frontiers delves into the secrets of America’s past—as archeologists investigate three tremendous discoveries: unique finds that bring our history to life like never before. Unearthing Secret America shows how the Jamestown fort offers clues to the struggles of the colonists and how slave quarters at Monticello and Williamsburg expose a secret world for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Barnes, Ian
Summary: This fascinating book explores the history of the native peoples of North America, from the early arrival of humans from Asia and their migration throughout 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. Particular emphasis is placed on the role...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books, an imprint of Book Sales, a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 BARThornton, Tamara Plakins
Summary: Copybooks and the Palmer method, handwriting analysis and autograph collecting - these words conjure up a lost world, in which people looked to handwriting as both a lesson in conformity and a talisman of individuality. In this engaging history, ranging from colonial times to the present, Tamara Plakins Thornton explores the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting in America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 652.109 THONurin, Tara
Summary: It’s women, not men, who’ve brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years—through the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization, the reign of Cleopatra, the witch trials of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the settling of colonial America. A Woman’s Place Is in the Brewhouse celebrates the contributions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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Summary: Publisher's description: The remarkable story of the land purchase that doubled the size of our young nation, set the stage for its expansion across the continent, and confronted Americans with new challenges of ethnic and religious diversity. In a saga that stretches from Paris and Madrid to Haiti, Virginia, New York, and New Orleans, Jon Kukla shows how rivalries over the Mississippi River...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 KUKSociety of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy 1976