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America, a cultural history ; v. 1Fischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISReynoso, Naibe
Summary: Brief biographies in rhyme of 11 notable Latinos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Con Todo Press 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYCall number: J SPANISH 920 REY
Gibson, Carrie
Summary: "Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GIBProenza-Coles, Christina
Summary: "American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NewSouth Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PROFreeman, Charles
Summary: A radical reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity in 368 AD on the later Roman world, and on Western civilization. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, Constantine turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the rush to redefine the place of black Americans in contemporary society, many radical activists and academics have mounted a campaign to destroy traditional American history and replace it with a politicized version that few would recognize. According to the new radical orthodoxy, the United States was founded as a racist nation--and everything that has happened throughout our history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emancipation Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 REDSummary: Declares "the American century", the name Henry Luce gave to an era of American prosperity beginning in 1941, dead, and collects essays explaining what the American century was and meant, and why many believe it has met a premature demise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SHOSummary: 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 DREDodds Pennock, Caroline
Summary: "A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 PENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 PENMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Fitts, Robert K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 FITWeatherford, J. McIver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 WEAAhmed, Akbar S.
Summary: Tensions over Islam were escalating in Europe even before 9/11. Since then, repeated episodes of terrorism together with the refugee crisis have dramatically increased the divide between the majority population and Muslim communities, pushing the debate well beyond concerns over language and female dress. Meanwhile, the parallel rise of right-wing, nationalist political parties throughout the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.6 AHMMenocal, Maria Rosa.
Summary: Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 946.02 MENFischer, David Hackett
Summary: Discusses the transplanting of British folkways to America during four waves of immigration between 1629 and 1775.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 FISDyson, Michael Eric
Summary: "For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a public intellectual, university professor, cultural critic, social activist and ordained Baptist minister. He has presented a rich and resourceful set of ideas about American history and culture. Now for the first time he brings together the various components of his multihued identity and eclectic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 DYSKaplan, Alice Yaeger.
Summary: Examines how spending time abroad in Paris changed the lives and outlooks of three notable American women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.361 KAPBreen, Benjamin
Summary: ""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Hoock, Holger
Summary: "The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It's a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock shows in this ... account of America's founding, the Revolution was not only a high-minded battle over principles,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 HOOD'Souza, Dinesh
Summary: Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world? D'Souza offers a passionate and sharply reasoned defense of America, knocking down every important accusation made by Progressives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DSOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 DSOMurphy, Cullen.
Summary: The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our Republic. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves either as a triumphal call to action, or a dire warning of imminent collapse. Esteemed editor and author Murphy ventures past the pundits' rhetoric to draw nuanced lessons about how we might avoid Rome's demise. Working on a canvas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 MURSchwab, Tim
Summary: "A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy to exercise enormous political power without accountability"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.7 SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 361.7 SCHBuchanan, Patrick J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 BUCBaker, Gerard
Summary: American breakdown dissects how, in the space of a generation, the pillars that sustained the once-dominant superpower have been dangerously eroded. From government to business, from media to medicine—the strength and security of the American experiment have been weakened by a widening gap between the elites who control these institutions and the public. At the root of this breakdown is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023