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African Americans History Clothing and dress Juvenile fiction Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Juvenile literature Pennsylvania Juvenile fiction Statesmen Stories in rhyme Time travel Fiction United States United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Juvenile literatureStephenson, Neal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STEPTodd, Ilima
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Todd 2019Venezia, Mike.
Summary: Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1988
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB REMBRANDT VENMarsico, Katie
Summary: Explores the everyday life of a colonial doctor and his responsibilities, social practices, and importance to the community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 610.973 MARBurgan, Michael.
Summary: Presents a brief history of African-Americans and of slavery in seventeenth and eighteenth century America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0496 BURShelley, Percy Bysshe
Summary: A selection of thirty-seven poems by eighteenth-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1993
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 SHESummary: How did it feel to be bought and sold like cattle, only to be liberated with nowhere to go and no one to turn to for help? In this profoundly moving program, Ted Koppel of ABC News presents the African-American slave experience in the voices of those who knew it firsthand. Thanks to tapes-now digitally remastered-from a project undertaken during the 1930s and 40s by John Henry Falke and others,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Foreman, Amanda
Summary: Traces the life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GEOSobel, Dava.
Summary: Recounts John Harrison's invention of the marine chronometer in eighteenth-century England.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 526.62 SOBBell, Karen Cook
Summary: "Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and originalcontribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 BELAppleby, Joyce Oldham.
Summary: With its deep roots and global scope, the capitalist system provides the framework for our lives. It is a framework of constant change, sometimes measured and predictable, sometimes drastic, out of control. Yet what is now ubiquitous was not always so. The centuries-long history of capitalism is rich and eventful. Joyce Appleby gives us a fascinating introduction to this most potent creation of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.12 APPBerkowitz, Eric
Summary: "A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.31 BERKent, Alexander.
Summary: Captain Richard Bolitho is placed in charge of the flagship of a squadron attempting to force Britain's entry into the Mediterranean during the late eighteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 1999
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENLee, Mackenzi
Summary: A young British lord embarks on an unforgettable grand tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush in this eighteenth-century romantic adventure for the modern age.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEEProenza-Coles, Christina
Summary: "American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the hemisphere from the sixteenth thorough the twentieth centuries. While conventional history tends to reduce the roles of African Americans to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NewSouth Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 PROFradin, Dennis B.
Summary: A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, publisher, inventor, scientist, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 FraFritz, Jean.
Summary: A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAHakim, Joy.
Summary: Presents the history of the United States from the colonization of the New World through the middle of the eighteenth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.2 HAKHuey, Lois Miner.
Summary: Details the archaeological discovery of thirteen skeletons in upstate New York that were identified as eighteenth century slaves from the Schuyler farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HUELimbaugh, Rush H.
Summary: Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to eighteenth-century Boston to experience the start of the American Revolution as it happens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LIMDunn, Rob R.
Summary: " ... traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 578.012 DUNStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Geronimo and his friends journey to the eighteenth century to stop the Pirate Cats from pillaging the East India Company's merchant ships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2016
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Summary: "Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and especially Central Asia and the Iranian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.02 EATGreen, Robert
Summary: A biography of the eighteenth-century British monarch during whose reign the American colonies fought to break away and form an independent nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1997