Summary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFR

Contents: The last mile of the way (Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers) -- Search me Lord (Brother Joe May) -- Mother bowed (Pilgrim Travelers) -- Oh Lord, stand by me (Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama) -- Too close to heaven (Alex Bradford) -- Get away Jordan (Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes) -- My rock (Swan Silvertones) -- Let God abide (Robert Anderson) -- Prayer for the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Specialty Records 1991

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Kaplan, Wendy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.409 KAP

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PRO

Jones, Doug (G. Douglas)

Summary: "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 JON

Muskegon Museum of Art

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 759.13 LOS

Sullivan, Arthur

Contents: Ruddigore -- The tempest (incidental music) -- The merchant of Venice, suite.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1992

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Summary: Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EDI

Schroth, Sarah.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MFA Publications 2008

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.46 SCH

Evans, Walker

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.092 EVA

Birmingham, John

Summary: In a first installment of a three-part alternate history epic, America's World War II fleet is decimated by a multi-national task force sent back in time from the year 2021, forcing Admiral Nimitz and Rear Admiral Spruance to make the potentially consequential decision to fight their own possible descendants.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004

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Contents: Christian's automobile (Dixie Hummingbirds) (4:32) -- Only believe (Swan Silvertone Singers) (8:19) -- Keep your lamp trimmed and burning (Rev. Pearly Brown & Mrs. Christine Brown) (3:10) -- Gonna lay down my sword and shield (Joseph Spence) (1:59) -- Swing down chariot (Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes) (3:29) -- Jesus hear my prayer (Swan Silvertone Singers) (4:58) -- I've got so...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1995

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Summary: In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Woodlawn 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOO RATED PG

Kinchin, Juliet

Summary: Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first appearance as a plaything for the rich in the 1890s to its establishment as a utilitarian necessity of modern life, the car has transformed the ways in which we live, work and enjoy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2021

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BIRMINGHAM, STEPHEN

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1984

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Birmingham, John

Summary: A group of intrepid heroes must band together to save civilization after a long dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Birmingham, John

Summary: When a vast inexplicable energy wave wipes out ninety-nine percent of the U.S. population, the survivors struggle to meet the unimaginable challenges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010

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Hennessey, Maureen Hart.

Summary: Essays examining Norman Rockwell's critical place in 20th-century American culture accompany 120 illustrations by the artist, including 80 in full color.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: High Museum of Art 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 750 HEN

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 HEN

Conrads, Margaret C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 CON

Birmingham, John

Summary: Traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010

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Birmingham, John

Summary: The Axis and Allied forces race to build an atom bomb while a revitalized Soviet Union threatens to unleash a new wave of destruction, and Admiral Kolhammer and his team confront the consequences of disturbing the historical timeline.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2007

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Birmingham, Maria

Summary: Takes readers on a tour of wacky and folkloric methods that humans have used to try prolonging their lives, from ancient immortality elixirs and quests for a fountain of youth to modern-day research into cryogenics and robotics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2015

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Birmingham, Stephen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1967

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 BIR