Summary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Olstein, Lisa
Summary: "Pain Studies is a book-length lyric essay at the intersection of pain, perception, and language. Through the prism of migraine, Pain Studies episodically and idiosyncratically explores personal, cultural, medical, and literary histories of pain--how we experience, express, treat, and mistreat it--and undertakes extended engagements with a range of sources including the trial testimony of Joan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 JAMCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLISummary: "Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMPChin, Ava
Summary: "Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history--and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin--all while converging at a single Chinatown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHIN, AVA CHIKilmeade, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.5 KILSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Summary: "The Creek War was one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U.S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized like a cancer. The ensuing Creek War of 1813-1814 shattered Native American control of the Deep South and led to the infamous Trail of Tears, in which the government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HARKrogh, Egil
Summary: "The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. In a secluded office in President Nixon's White House in 1971, Egil "Bud" Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor-and a key confidant of the president-John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 KROMorhard, Ruth Hanford
Summary: "As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, wrestled triumph out of adversity by creating a community activity that would inspire the nation. Josephine Morhard's daughter-in-law recounts the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the woman who established the first boys' baseball league in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 796.357 MORMillard, Candice
Summary: "For millennia the location of the Nile River's headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the nineteenth century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe--and extend their colonial empires. Two British men--Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke--were sent by the Royal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 916.204 MILSummary: In the early seventies, the world was watching as Chile democratically elected Socialist leader Salvador Allende. His political ideals and aspirations, among them, providing education for all children and distributing land to the nation₂s workers, terrified the country₂s right-wing, as well as the U.S., who helped orchestrate a military coup that replaced him with dictator Augusto Pinochet....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SANHallman, J. C.
Summary: "In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures--performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"--forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, ANARCHA HALTurbow, Jason
Summary: "How the Oakland A's of the 1970s--a revolutionary band of brawling Hall of Famers--won three straight championships and knocked baseball into the modern age"--Dust jacket flap
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Team Turbow 2017Armand, Glenda
Summary: "This picture book biography recounts the extraordinary life of Augustus Jackson, an African American entrepreneur who is known as the 'Father of Ice Cream.'"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Kids, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JACSedgwick, John
Summary: John Sedgwick recounts the decade-long fight between General William J. Palmer, the Civil War hero leading the "little family" of his Rio Grande, coming down from Denver, hoping to showcase the majesty of the Rockies, and William Barstow Strong, the hard-nosed manager of the corporate-minded Santa Fe, venturing west from Kansas. What begins as an accidental rivalry when the two lines cross in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 385.0979 SEDTaylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Discusses what engineering is, highlighting female engineers who revolutionized the role of women in the field and providing activities, including building a suspension bridge, designing and building a kite, and investigating processed food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYSummary: Season two follows Queen Elizabeth through the late 1950s and early '60s as she struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her. She must face the challenges of a new era, from the Suez Canal crisis to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Crown 2018Ellenport, Craig
Summary: "Learn about the key players and big wins that have made the Ohio State Buckeyes one of the most popular teams in college football. Readers will get a glimpse into the team's history, its home stadium, its fans, and the team's most memorable moments. Additional features to enhance comprehension include a table of contents, informative sidebars and captions, a glossary of key words and phrases,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.332 ELLAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALLAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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Summary: "A biography of Neil Armstrong's life--from his early childhood to walking on the moon and legacy."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019