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Summary: Describes what it was like to live as a settler in Colonial America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.2 TROSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANKalman, Bobbie.
Summary: This book introduces the life and times of the pioneers describing their homes, tools, jobs, clothes, and travel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.03 KALMiller, Brandon Marie.
Summary: Presents details of daily life of American children during the period from 1775 to 1800.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 MILBangs, Jeremy Dupertuis
Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 BangsMiller, Brandon Marie.
Summary: A social history of the American colonial period with a focus on the daily lives of women, including European immigrants, Native Americans, and slaves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2003
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Summary: "The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 MOOBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROMiller, Brandon Marie.
Summary: Presents details of daily life of Colonial children during the period from 1607 to 1775.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.2 MILSummary: Men playing the stage roles of women is as old as the history of theater; in the tradition of Kabuki, the portrayal of female characters has become a tradition of its own. This program looks at the history of Kabuki and the role of women, and looks particularly at the dynastic development of the onnagata-the female impersonator-and the intricate techniques and details by which a thoroughly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Through narration and dramatic reconstruction, this three-part television program explores the unique relationship that Britons enjoyed with their homes during the Georgian era. Characters from all walks of life, from gentlewomen in their stately mansions to servants, are brought to life through their artifacts, letters, and diaries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ATSummary: 1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ja 3Bix, Cynthia Overbeck.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in America from the 1770s to the 1860s, examining the clothing and accessories of the common people and soldiers, as well as the men and women of the upper and middle classes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 BIXJasanoff, Maya
Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 JASJasanoff, Maya
Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 JASQuinn, Julia
Summary: "In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours. Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent--not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she needed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction QuinnFranklin, Benjamin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 FRAMacColl, Gail
Summary: Read about a unique set of American women cutting a swath through stodgy 19th century British aristocracy. The book covers not just who they were but the lows and the triumphs of their inter-continental marriages. Also included are many fascinating details on how they dressed and what they had to go through.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7104 MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.7104 MACSummary: Includes essays and literary works by Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, Clarence Darrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, and H. L. Mencken as well as an essay by Henry L. Stimson (P.A. 1883) on the decision to use the atomic bomb.Contains primary source material.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Square Press 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 810.8 AMESummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROLevin, Yuval.
Summary: "In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVSpilsbury, Louise
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 SPIJones, Martha S.
Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 JonSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3