Stadiem, William.
Summary: "In October 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international travel came true for thousands of ordinary Americans who longed to emulate the "jet set"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.742 STAKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Liulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
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Brown, Frederick
Summary: "From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of For the Soul of France ("Masterful history...hard to put down."-Henry Kissinger); Zola ("Magnificent." --The New Yorker); andFlaubert ("Impeccable."-James Wood, cover, The New York Times Book Review)-a brilliant reconsideration of the events and the political, social, and religious movements that led to France's embrace of Fascism and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.081 BROSummary: This televised time capsule recounts the incredible events of the past 100 years. Through exclusive interviews and rare film footage you will witness the great wars, devastating disasters, and social changes of this century decade-by-decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passport Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REMSummary: This televised time capsule recounts the incredible events of the past 100 years. Through exclusive interviews and rare film footage you will witness the great wars, devastating disasters, and social changes of this century decade-by-decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passport Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REMSummary: This classic episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series takes viewers on a journey around the world in a mere half an hour, showing military police activities in Europe, helicopter activities in the Far East, and the latest in training methods within the Zone of Interior, aka the United States. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration presents these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This televised time capsule recounts the incredible events of the past 100 years. Through exclusive interviews and rare film footage you will witness the great wars, devastating disasters, and social changes of this century decade-by-decade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passport Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REMUnreich, Rachelle
Summary: "The powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter--a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. As Mira is nearing the end of her life, her daughter Rachelle wants to find out how her mother had lived through four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and a Death March. There was a mystery to her survival, it seemed--which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 UNRContents: 1899-1914 High hopes and recklessness -- 1914-33 Self-inflicted wounds remain infected -- 1933-45 Rise and fall of the unspeakable -- 1945-65 Atomic truce walks a tightrope -- 1965-85 Vietnam to the moon to Soviet collapse -- 1986-99 Chaos and hope on a burdened planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 909.82 CENHale, Grace Elizabeth
Summary: An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Produced by the U.S. Army, this episode of The Big Picture focuses on the First Infantry Division in South Vietnam. In addition to chronicling its battle actions since its arrival in Vietnam in July 1965 until its largest campaign, Operation Junction City in March 1967, this captivating film features footage from the National Archives and Records Administration. It also depicts the severe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Shesol, Jeff
Summary: Drawing on new archival sources, Jeff Shesol re-creates the tension and excitement of a flight that shifted the momentum of the space race and put the United States on the path to the moon.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 629.45 SHEBailey, Catherine
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England's wealthiest families. Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England's aristocrats. With the novelistic flair and knack for historical detail Catherine Bailey displayed in her New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942 BAISnyder, Timothy
Summary: The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.9 SNYSummary: This documentary examines more recent events in the U.S. Navy saga. It begins with a concise recap of the Vietnam War and continues on through the naval threat posed by the Soviet Union, challenges and flare-ups of the Cold War, and the Persian Gulf War’s Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Seldes, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 SELLim, Louisa.
Summary: "Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia. A single act of public remembrance might...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 LIMSummary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series, narrated by news analyst Edward R. Murrow, focuses on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, of which the United States is a founding member. This alliance was created in response to the two World Wars and the Korean War, which showed that when one free nation anywhere is threatened by aggression, the safety of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called the ignominious fall of Singapore to the Japanese in early 1942 the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British history. In just seven days the "Impregnable Fortress" had fallen. This classic program incorporates authentic WWII archival film footage and accounts from soldiers on both sides of the battleline on Singapore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: By June 1944, there are signs on both sides of the world that the tide is turning. Through historic footage and interviews, Ken Burns’ Pride of Our Nation brings us to June 6: D-Day. A million and a half Allied troops embark on one of the greatest military operations in history - the invasion of France. It is the bloodiest day for America since the Civil War. In the Pacific, Marines encounter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The horrors of World War II are the subject of this episode. We’ve been told all our lives that this war was our greatest triumph, the moment when the forces of light - the Western democracies and the Soviet Union - prevailed over the forces of darkness, the Nazis and the other Axis powers. It was a conflict that began in Europe in September 1939 and ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008