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Dougherty, Kevin.

Summary: An illustrated guide to 20 battles of the American Civil War, giving quick facts, narrative description, and detailed maps of each battle.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.73 DOU

Willis, Deborah

Summary: Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed--marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deb Willis explores the crucial role of photography in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 WIL

Withers, Ernest C.

Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....

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Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WIT

Andreas, Joel.

Summary: Cultural Writing. Political Science. Government. Education. ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 AND

Stauffer, John

Summary: Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer nor Walt Whitman, and not even Abraham Lincoln, was the most photographed American of that century. In fact, it was Frederick Douglass...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2015

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Hodgkins, Lisa

Summary: "In the last half of the 19th century, the women of America were beginning to develop their own sense of style. Although influenced by European fashions and the social and economic changes of the time, they made clothing choices based upon their personal aspirations and their practical everyday needs. Providing an overview of fashion influences for each decade from the 1860s to the end of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.2 HOD

Living Cities (U.S.)

Summary: "From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans. In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 SYS

Wels, Susan.

Summary: Profiles the life of Amelia Earhart, including her historic career as a pilot and the latest information on her disappearance while flying over the Pacific in 1937.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EARHART, AMELIA WEL

Summary: "Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to the public library: the unmistakable, slightly musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly-discovered books. Today's libraries also function as de facto community centers, and offer free access to the Internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter along with the endless possibilities that spark your...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Architectural Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.7 DAW

Carter, Arlan.

Summary: The American Rowboat Motor covers the development of the outboard motor between the 1890's and the 1920's. During this relatively short time, the country saw remarkable technological advances in communications and transportation. The telephone kept us connected, the radio kept us informed, and we went from a horse drawn society to a motorized one, all in the span of thirty short years. Marine...

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Publisher / Publication Date: [Fall Creek Trading Co.] 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.87 CAR

Gordon, Linda.

Summary: Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGE, DOROTHEA GOR

Horton, James

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Craft Wood Horton 2020

Ringstad, Arnold

Summary: Gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, an index, and sources for further research.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J609 MOM

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: This volume of ordinary people change the world features Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice. She is proof that with opportunity comes justice.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SOT

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am Sotomayor

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