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Shachtman, TomSummary: Through first-hand accounts, viewers relive the rush for gold and other opportunities in the West and witness the effect of westward migrations on Native Americans. This program explores the adventures of the ’49ers on the overland trails and witness the prosperity of the gold rush towns like San Francisco, as well as broken treaties with the Plains Indians and the slaughter of Native American...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: While America was founded as a free land in which people could live out their own destinies, it came at a terrible cost to Native Americans. The Pilgrims laid the groundwork for religious freedom, while the Puritan-led Salem Witch Trials were a frightening reminder of superstition and intolerance. The nation's population migrates westward, emboldened by a new philosophy called Manifest Destiny;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: The nation is in love with progress, and innovations include steamboats, the Erie Canal, and the first railroads. The Industrial Revolution brings Americans new leisure and personal freedom - but there is a dark side to the story for factory workers and women. Reformers begin to rail against horrendous conditions, while people like Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton rally for equal rights.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: From Mexican landowners in California to Native American tribes in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this film examines various perspectives on territorial claims to the West and the history of U.S. annexation. This program explains how events, such as the Texas War of Independence, opened the door to U.S. annexation. Diary excerpts, letters, and other primary resources vividly portray the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Shachtman, Tom
Summary: "In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reaped benefits from its independence. While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 SHASummary: Through wars, depressions, and social upheavals, the West has accommodated to change while remaining a mythical land of freedom and possibility. The ghosts of the buffalos are still stirring. Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood have given way to Native American artists; Indians-once the subjects of painting-have become its practitioners. So the myth regenerates itself and the American...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Here is the saga of Manifest Destiny, the banner under which Americans surged westward in the mid-19th century. It is the story of the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War that doubled the size of the young United States, the gold strikes that doubled its wealth, and the pioneer spirit that made the Oregon Trail into Main Street.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Chicago stockyards/meat packing industry. Portrays images of meat hanging and being cut.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1910
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Summary: Chicago Stockyards/meat packing industry. Pork packing plant and sausage making.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1910
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Summary: Japanese whaling expedition with US Navy supervision/escort
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: New Ford Tractors demonstrated for European/Marshall Plan buyers
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1949
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Summary: Tell It With TV film showcasing the commercial benefits of corporate sponsorship of TV programming
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Automobile factory assembly line
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Pharmaceutical company, manufacturing antibiotics
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1955
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Summary: Trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's “Promised Land.” But a previously untraveled shortcut became a road to madness, death, and cannibalism. Members of the Donner party ate human flesh when they were caught snowbound just 150 miles from the end of their 2,500-mile trip across the United...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1992
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Summary: If they are human, they're a separate species, said Charley Russell about cowboys. This episode shows us the West of Frederic Remington and Charley Russell, whose works transformed the working cowboy into the most enduring hero-figure in American folklore. Russell became a living representative of the West he portrayed, the poet laureate of the passing frontier. In their very different ways, he...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Shots of a sewing factory/garment industry. Workers--all women--at sewing machines, supervisor continually brings more pieces
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Summary: It searched for the mythical Northwest Passage. It clashed with American interests during the War of 1812. It even had a hand in the division of Oregon. This program chronicles the epic history of the Hudson's Bay Company, the world's oldest continuous commercial enterprise still in existence. Adapted from Peter C. Newman's best-seller and narrated by former NewsHour anchor Robert MacNeil, this...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Rocky Mountains were "like the stairs of heaven after the last soul has ascended earth," said Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Said Sitting Bull of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, "Our young men rained lead across the river and drove the white braves back. This is the time of the Civil War in the East, the last of the Indian Wars, the final spike in the transcontinental railroad. Thomas Moran and Albert...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Chicago stockyards/meat packing industry. Cattle journey from life in pen to processing.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1910
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Summary: Mechanized cotton gins and baling machinery in South.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1918
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Summary: Malaya rubber workers loading shipments of sheets of rubber for Britain
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: Dodge auto show exhibit (cars, automobiles)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1947
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Summary: Car industry wheel assembly plant (factory work)
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950