Jiles, Paulette
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JILHämäläinen, Pekka
Summary: The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 HAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Native HamalainenSummary: Chronicles the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WAYHämäläinen, Pekka
Summary: Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.004 HAMSummary: This program examines the friction caused by westward expansion of white settlers from the colonial period through the 19th century and the near obliteration of America's indigenous population and their culture.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Sedgwick, 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 Non-fiction, Call number: 385.09 SEDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 385.0979 SEDBrands, H. W.
Summary: "What do moral people do when democracy countenances evil? The question, implicit in the idea that people can govern themselves, came to a head in America at the middle of the nineteenth century, in the struggle over slavery. John Brown's answer was violence--violence of a sort some in later generations would call terrorism. Brown was a deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 BRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.8 BRASummary: The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil War. During this program viewers face the questions that could win or lose the war from the viewpoint of commanding generals Lee and Meade.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This program covers the Battle of Antietam which was fought on September 17, 1862. Eleven hours of fighting produced over 23,000...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Union officer Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain achieved fame at the Battle of Gettysburg for his valiant defense of a hill named Little Round Top. For his gallantry, he was awarded the Medal of Honor and given the honor of commanding the Union troops at the surrender ceremony for the infantry of Robert E. Lee's Army at Appomattox, Virginia.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This video is part of an acclaimed series from The History Channel that chronicles the American Civil War. The series uses archival photographs, diaries, articles, reenactments, and scholarly commentary to tell the story of the War Between the States. This program profiles the Confederate soldier John Singleton Mosby, who attained mythical status with his skill in guerilla warfare, which...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This episode follows as artist correspondents Alfred Waud and Winslow Homer document the war with sketches and paintings, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Commentary from leading historians are combined with eyewitness testimony and dramatic reenactments of Civil War battles to tell the tragic story of the battle of Antietam, which was fought on September 17, 1862. Eleven hours of fighting produced over 23,000 Union and Confederate casualties, the bloodiest single day of the war.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This program chronicles the mass destruction as industrial-age weapons first appear on Civil War battlefields.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This episode chronicles how the Union Cavalry begins its crusade disastrously.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the Union forces under Maj. Gen. John...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This episode looks at the unconventional volunteer troops known as Zouaves who copied their light infantry tactics, drills, daring,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The History Channel's acclaimed series, Civil War Journal, takes viewers beyond the battles and into the personal stories of the War Between the States. Drawing on diaries, photographs and dramatic re-enactments, the intimate side of the epic conflict is exposed. This program profiles young men who rose to high rank in the Civil War.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6 - 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the river. Confederate forces under...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011