Summary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAK

Summary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO
1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO

Contents: Disc one: Stax writers, Stax releases (part one). Comfort me / Carla Thomas -- You make a strong girl weak / Jeanne & The Darlings -- What did I do wrong / William Bell -- Another night without my man / Carla Thomas -- I got everything you need ; Mister fix it ; I'll always have faith in you ; Got to make a comeback / Eddie Floyd -- I've seen what loneliness can do / Homer Banks -- Slow train /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES WRI

Summary: General William Tecumseh Sherman's total war strategy against the South helped end the Civil War and forever changed the nation. Sherman's brutal and effective campaign, which not only saved the Lincoln presidency, the Union, and thousands of lives, but also made Sherman one of the most hated and controversial figures in American history. In November 1864, Sherman and an army of 60,000 troops...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHE

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHE

Williams, J. T.

Summary: Presents the extraordinary life stories of fourteen Black British people and their contributions to the worlds of literature, theater, journalism, politics, medicine, sport, and music.Carefully researched and eloquently written by children’s author J.T. Williams, Bright Stars of Black British History brings to life historical figures from Tudor England to the present day. Written in both an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WIL

Williams, Richard T.

Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 IND

Williams, Richard T.

Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 IND

M Travis T Williams

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: American Music, Inc. 1947

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Williams, Richard T.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1971

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3748 Willi

Will.i.am.

Summary: "Parental Advisory; explicit content."-- Container insert.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Interscope Records 2013

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP WIL

Summary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INS

Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BAT

Johnson, Hal

Summary: Meet the fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods! The Hodag, like a spinybacked bull-horned rhinoceros packing 3,000 pounds of carnivorous fury. The Snoligoster, the reptilian beast that feeds on the shadows of its victims. And deadlier than a rattler, copperhead, or cottonmouth combined, the Hoop Snake, which can chase prey at speeds up to 60 miles per hour and then, with one sting of its...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Company 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC JOH

T Williams P Bowles

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: G.Schirmer, Inc. 1946

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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Vollmann, William T.

Summary: A collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death and the erotic all focusing on the attempts of the living to avoid, control, or even seduce death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VOL

Vollmann, William T.

Summary: William T.Vollmann begins No Immediate Danger, the first volume of Carbon Ideologies, by examining and quantifying the many causes of climate change, from industrial manufacturing and agricultural practices to fossil fuel extraction, economic demand for electric power, and the justifiable yearning of people all over the world to live in comfort. Turning to nuclear power first, Vollmann recounts...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79 VOL

Vollmann, William T.

Summary: Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VOL PT 1 OF 2

Vollmann, William T.

Summary: Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border. Vollmann's main character is not the legendary Chief Joseph, but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VOL PT 2 OF 2

Vollmann, William T.

Summary: "The second volume of William T. Vollmann's epic book about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming begins in the coal fields of West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, where "America's best friend" is not merely a fuel, but a "heritage." Over the course of four years Vollmann finds hollowed out towns with coal-polluted streams and acidified drinking water; makes covert visits...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIKING 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.8 VOL

Williams, Richard T.

Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 IND

Williams, Richard T.

Contents: [1] 1682-1782.--[2] 1783-1810.--[3] 1811-1831.--[4] 1832-1850.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n.]. 1972

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3748 IND