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Atomic bomb United States History Civil rights movements United States Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 United States United States History 20th century United States History 21st century United States Politics and government 20th century United States Social conditions 20th century United States. États-Unis Histoire 20e siècleFilter By Subjects
Atomic bomb United States History Civil rights movements United States Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 United States United States History 20th century United States History 21st century United States Politics and government 20th century United States Social conditions 20th century United States. États-Unis Histoire 20e siècleSummary: In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as US Secretary of Labor, the first woman to sit on a presidential cabinet. Against overwhelming odds, she became a driving force behind the New Deal social safety net, including Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the 8-hour day, minimum wage, and unemployment compensation. Featuring compelling interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUMGage, Beverly
Summary: "A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXHarmon, Mark
Summary: Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Select 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.12 HARBird, Kai
Summary: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OPPENHEIMER, J. ROBERT BIRSummary: A look at the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the integral relationship between the civil rights leaders and African American churches. Chronicles the non-violent revolution in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. The price paid was often high, but the victory led to equal access to transportation, education, public facilities, and ultimately, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GT Media 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEStone, Oliver.
Summary: In this companion to the ten-part documentary series the authors outline a "people's history" of the American empire and its rise and decline, aided by the latest archival findings and recently declassified documents and scholarly research. They challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this look at the dark side of American history. They introduce readers to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 STOMartelle, Scott
Summary: "In one vitally significant year in American history, the country would experience turmoil, instability, natural disaster, bubbling political radicalism, and a rise of dangerous forces ushering in a new era of global conflict--and emerge both afresh and revitalized. At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.9 EVASummary: Twelve-chapter documentary series, created and executive produced by Academy Award-winning writer/director Oliver Stone. Do Americans really know and understand the country's shared and complicated history? How are the small details and forgotten players that influenced some of the biggest events from America's past recalled? Will children actually get the whole story from reading history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Okrent explores the origins, implementation, and failure of that great American delusion known as Prohibition. This book explains how Prohibition happened, what life under it was like, and what it did to the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.41 OKRGaines, James R.
Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAISummary: In the 1950s, American women discovered they could earn thousands, even millions of dollars, from bowls that burped. "Tupperware ladies" fanned out across the nation's living rooms, selling efficiency and convenience to their friends and neighbors through home parties. The secret behind Tupperware's success: the women of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds who discovered they could move up in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TUPSummary: Last in a three-part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events that changed the way Americans saw themselves. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 16, 1939, urged the development of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V3Gambone, Michael D.
Summary: "America is awash with alleged conspiracies. It seems like today, no one with a cell phone escapes the vortex of skepticism, cynicism, paranoia, and fear that occupy our thoughts almost constantly. Seeking out valid answers in this cacophony can be confusing and deeply frustrating. In this book, historian Michael D. Gambone provides case studies of popular conspiracy theories in America from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 GAMStebenne, David
Summary: "A timely work of groundbreaking history explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 STESchweikart, Larry.
Summary: Traces the rise of the United States as a global superpower from a conservative perspective, challenging popular views while offering insight into the country's influence on world politics, military affairs, and business practices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SCHSummary: Profiles American photographer Dorothea Lange, who came to the the attention of the world with her photographs documenting the Great Depression, and achieved lasting fame in the post-War years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DORSummary: Second in a three--part series in which acclaimed documentary filmmakers present ten pivotal moments in American history and their often unforeseen repercussions. This segment of three documentary films records events at the beginning of the 20th century. The Homestead Strike on July 6, 1892 was the result of harsh working conditions at Carnegie's Homestead steel mill, a battle between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Channel 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TEN V2Contents: The ideal republic (1923) / William Jennings Bryan -- On the future of women in flying (1931) / Amelia Earhart -- Farewell to baseball (1939) / Lou Gehrig -- Address to the nation on the R.A.F. (1940) / Prime Minister Winston Churchill -- Greetings to the children of England (1940) / Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret -- Farewell to baseball (1947) / Babe Ruth -- Address to Congress...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1991
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GREMcGirr, Lisa
Summary: "Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to reveal a much more significant history. Prohibition was the seedbed for a pivotal expansion of the federal government, the genesis of our contemporary penal state. Her deeply researched,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.4 MCGKelly, Robert Gene.
Summary: "A family story that begins in Ireland just prior to World War I. A quick paced, ongoing tale of patriotism and adventure that covers three wars and two continents ending up in Northwest Lower Michigan four generations later."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wynne Pub. 2008