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Armed Forces Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Politics and government Presidents Presidents United States Biography United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Video recordings for people with visual disabilities Video recordings for the hearing impaired États-Unis Histoire 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)Summary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: Even today, almost 150 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, unexpected secrets and little-known stories continue to emerge from Civil War history. In the cavalry charge at Mine Creek in Kansas, it took only 30 minutes for 2,800 Union troops to defeat an enemy force more than double in size, and yet, few people have heard of it. The same can be said of a Confederate raid on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECSummary: Even today, almost 150 years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, unexpected secrets and little-known stories continue to emerge from Civil War history. In the cavalry charge at Mine Creek in Kansas, it took only 30 minutes for 2,800 Union troops to defeat an enemy force more than double in size, and yet, few people have heard of it. The same can be said of a Confederate raid on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This collection of documentaries produced by A & E presents a broad overview of organized crime in America, beginning with immigrants who formed gangs soon after arriving in the late 19th century. The focus is on Italian-American gangsters, though there are mentions of Irish and Jewish gangs, which at various times cooperated with or competed against the Mafia, and one program in the collection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2001
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAFSummary: The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXSummary: Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers--Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier--changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWSummary: Presents a reinterpretation of the legacy of 9/11, chronicling the polarized political culture that evolved over the two decades since the terrorist attacks, leading up to the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMESummary: In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BLISummary: Authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Klan from its birth in 1866 to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KUSummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: The Iran hostage crisis involved 52 American diplomats, Marines, and civilians held by force at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. Unfolding like a political thriller, see how hostages' personal lives were torn apart and scrutinized through publicity, correspondents risked their lives to discover the truth about Iran, and military forces attempted to rescue the victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TAKSummary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV USSummary: Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of Titan rises: Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries, from the highways to the skyways. After years of fighting each other, and FDR, these rivals must unite during World War II to defeat a greater enemy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TITSummary: In the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst's media empire included 28 newspapers, a movie studio, a syndicated wire service, radio stations and 13 magazines. Nearly one in four American families read a Hearst publication. His newspapers were so influential that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Winston Churchill all wrote for him. The first practitioner of what is now known as 'synergy,' Hearst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITSummary: Tells the story of the struggle for freedom by thousands of African-American ex-slaves who fled Southern plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. Follows their dream of a journey to freedom in bone-chilling Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone. Features the stories of Englishman John Clarkson, a passionate advocate of the abolition of slavery, and two African men,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROUSummary: In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston, a city of so many firsts that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RACSummary: International art sensation Keith Haring blazed a trail through the legendary art scene of '80s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. Haring's message targeted the underlying threat of violence, sexual exploitation, and political oppression. His art was shown in over one hundred group and solo exhibitions during his lifetime and he continues to be celebrated today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV KEISummary: Weaves the lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln; Abraham, the dirt-farmer's son turned Great Emancipator, and Mary, the emotionally fragile daughter of wealthy Southern slave-owners. Together, they ascended to the pinnacle of power at a crucial time in the nation's history. Abraham Lincoln's legacy reshaped the nation while the tragedy of his death left Mary reclusive and forgotten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ABRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ABRSummary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRESummary: In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016