Summary: 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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Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3

Golkar, Golriz

Summary: "In 1881, U.S. Army Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and his crew set sail for the Arctic. Their mission was to collect scientific data on the polar climate. They also had a second, secret goal: to achieve Farthest North, the record for highest latitude reached by explorers. But when resupply ships failed to arrive two years in a row, the team's dreams of glory turned into a nightmarish fight for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Library is published by Capstone Press 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.804 GOL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J919.804 GOL

Watson, William Henry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Conference 1961

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 280.4 Watson Vol. 2

Bach, Johann Sebastian 1685-1750

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BAC

Moore, Clement Clarke 1779-1863

Summary: Illustrates the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MOO

Summary: Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Glory

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Summary: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton, Mifflin and company 1883

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EME

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

Summary: The Last of the Mohicans is a story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty, and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, Alice's fiance, and by the treacherous Indian Magua,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 1986

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC Cooper

(DOCUMENTS: 1805-1813)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1929

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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: MIR 977.4 MIC

Keenan, Sheila

Summary: "Washington Irving published The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1820, introducing the eerie Headless Horseman character to readers worldwide. Readers were both scared and intrigued by the horrific character, who is the ghost of a soldier who had been decapitated during the American Revolution. Now, the character is an American classic, featured in movies, television shows, cartoons, comic books,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 813.2 KEE

Irving, Washington

Summary: The author oberves with a sharp eye the lives and customs of English, German, and Spanish gentry and villagers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1991

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Irving, Washington

Summary: An annotated edition of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.," which contains more than thirty essays, sketches, and tales by nineteenth-century American writer Washington Irving, including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2001

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRV

Irving, Washington

Summary: Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2013

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION IRV

Summary: An adaptation of the novel by Baroness Orczy in which a dashing dandy of the English court tries to defend innocent aristocrats from the violence of the French revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCA

Rachmaninov, Sergie (1873-1943)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Polygram Records, Inc. 1998

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