Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina

Summary: "A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight. Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Alabama Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HERMAN-GIDDENS, MARCIA EDWINA HER

Puleo, Stephen

Summary: "The remarkable story of the mission that inspired a nation to donate massive relief to Ireland during the potato famine and began America's tradition of providing humanitarian aid around the world More than 5,000 ships left Ireland during the great potato famine in the late 1840s, transporting the starving and the destitute away from their stricken homeland. The first vessel to sail in the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 PUL

Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIR

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Pietrusza, David

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 PIE

Summary: A deft politician and skillful diplomat, TR's magnetic personality and genius for publicity made him a legend in his own time. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, this is an engaging portrait of the private man and the president who created the modern American presidency.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2008

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRE

Wolraich, Michael.

Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war. After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed of politician to Washington. These young Republican firebrands, led by "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin, vowed to overthrow the party leaders and purge Wall Street's corrupting influence from Washington. Their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 WOL

Brown, Brandon R.

Summary: "Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as 'the basis of all twentieth-century physics.' Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work laid the foundation for our modern understanding of matter and energetic processes. But Planck's story is not well known,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015

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Hartman, Darrell

Summary: "A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get--and sell--the story. In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world's attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023

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Jones, Landon Y.

Contents: A dark and bloody ground -- 1. America's first west: 1722-1772 -- 2. General George Rogers Clark: 1772-1789 -- 3. Lieutenant Billy Clark: 1789-1795 -- 4. Soldier and citizen: 1795-1803 -- 5. "Ocian in view! O! the joy!":1803-1806 -- 6. This wild country: 1806-1809 -- 7. Life without Lewis: 1809-1813 -- 8. Territorial governor: 1813-1820 -- 9. "The red-headed chief": 1820-1829 -- 10. Resistance...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 CLA

Robinson, Andrew

Summary: The extraordinarily inventive Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, was asked how he came to have so many good ideas. Pauling replied: "Well, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones." Where do ideas come from? And why do the best ideas sometimes strike in a flash of "sudden genius"? Andrew Robinson here offers a fascinating look at the genesis of creativity in science and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.35 ROB

Thom, James Alexander.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1984

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THO

Alford, Terry

Summary: "The story of Abraham Lincoln as it has never been told before: through the strange, even otherworldly, points of contact between his family and that of the man who killed him, John Wilkes Booth. In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 ALF

Woodward, Bill.

Summary: History of lumbermen and lumbering operations during the 1800s, and on Civilian Conservation Corps activities from 1933 to 1942, in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodward & Woodward Publishing 0000

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History Woodward

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 WOO

Summary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HAN

Summary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Barone, Rebecca (Rebecca E.)

Summary: "In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.89 BAR

Summary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WES

Rutherfurd, Edward.

Summary: "Edward Rutherfurd's stirring account of Irish history, the Dublin Saga, concludes in this magisterial work of historical fiction. Beginning where the first volume, The Princes of Ireland, left off, The Rebels of Ireland takes us into a world transformed by the English practice of "plantation," which represented the final step in the centuries-long British conquest of Ireland. Once again...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUT

Reeves, John

Summary: In the spring of 1864, President Lincoln feared that he might not be able to save the Union. The Army of the Potomac had performed poorly over the previous two years, and many Northerners were understandably critical of the war effort. Lincoln assumed he'd lose the November election, and he firmly believed a Democratic successor would seek peace immediately, spelling an end to the Union. A Fire...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.736 REE

Summary: Story of the assassination of Jesse James by Robert Ford, a member of his gang.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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

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3 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN ASS

Heiligman, Deborah

Summary: "The true story of the relationship between brothers Theo and Vincent van Gogh"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 HEI

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Kehoe, Elisabeth.

Summary: Set against the backdrop of Victorian and Edwardian society, a portrait of the three Jerome sisters--American heiresses who married into the heights of British society--spans three generations, from their parents through their children.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KEH

Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Robert and Clara Schumann.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GRE