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Brace, Charles Loring 1826-1890 Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) East Jersey State Prison. Lifers' Group. Geysers Yellowstone National Park New York (State) New York Orphan trains State Prison, Rahway, N.J. United States Whitney, Henry Melville 1839-1923 Whitney, William C. (William Collins) 1841-1904Summary: Celebrated violinist and conductor Scott Yoo crosses the country, exploring the diversity of American musicians, cultures and landscapes to discover how regional and ethnic music has inspired America's greatest composers: Amy Beach, Florence Price, Aaron Copland and two of today's masters, Sergio Assad and Reena Esmail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NOWSummary: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. finds out who we are and where we come from.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For some 25 years, Frontline producer Ken Dornstein has been haunted by the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a terrorist act that killed 270 people, including his older brother David. Now, Dornstein sets out to find the men responsible, hunting for clues to the identities and whereabouts of the suspects in the ruins and chaos of post-Qaddafi Libya in this rare, real-life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSSummary: Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory LLC 2006
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TOMSummary: "Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world's first national park, a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America's last great bison herds, the grizzly bear and realm of the wolf ... Join the charismatic cast of Yellowstone's wildlife as they turn to face the extreme challenges of the seasons ... The daily struggles of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SCASummary: Examines the efforts of the Children's Aid Society in New York, organized by minister Charles Loring Brace, which from 1853 to 1929 sent over 100,000 unwanted and orphaned children from the city to homes in rural America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ORPSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017