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...
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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
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Shaara, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHAChidsey, Donald Barr
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6 CHIShaara, Jeff
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAFrancis, Vievee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 FRABlakely, Mike
Summary: Pairing extensive research with a brilliance for reviving the past in gripping narrative, Spur Award-winning author Mike Blakely has penned an epic novelization of the Mexican-American War in A Sinister Splendor. It's 1845. Texas joins the union and Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. Meanwhile, expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAChieftains
Contents: La iguana (with Lila Downs) -- La golondrina (with los Folkloristas) -- A la orilla de un palmar (with Linda Ronstadt) -- Danza de concheros (with los Folkloristas) -- El chivo (with los Cenzontles) -- San Campio (with Carlos Nę͠z) -- The sands of Mexico (with Ry Cooder) -- Sailing to Mexico (with Carlos Nę͠z) -- El caballo (with los Camperos de Valles) -- March to battle (across the Rio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hear Music 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CHIHobbs, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books] 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 HOBGrant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)
Summary: The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of throat cancer in 1885.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERLAIN, SAMUEL CHAGrande, Reyna
Summary: "A Long Petal of the Sea meets Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels in this epic historical romance about a Mexican woman and an Irish-American soldier who fall in love in the thick of the Mexican-American War"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASummary: Based on the true story of the Saint Patrick Battalion, a group of soldiers enlisted from Ireland to fight in the Mexican War. When they are treated harshly for their religious convictions, they escape across the border into the enemy territory of Mexico, where they must convince a Mexican rebel leader to let them fight against the U.S. so they can protect their beliefs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie OneSavage, Les.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP W SAVThom, James Alexander.
Summary: The alternating voices of Paddy Quinn, a young man with journalistic aspirations, and Mexican soldier Augustin Juvero recount the story of John Riley, who deserts the American army to fight for Mexico in the Mexican-American War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOSummary: 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 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISBass, Rick
Summary: When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo--a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASAbbott, Karen
Summary: "The never-before-told story of four real-life women who risked everything to take on a life of espionage during the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of-war Somers dropped anchor in Brooklyn Harbor at the end of a cruise intended to teach a group of adolescents the rudiments of naval life. But this seemingly harmless exercise ended in catastrophe. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie came ashore saying he had narrowly prevented a mutiny that would have left him and his officers dead. Some of the thwarted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 SNOBlake, James Carlos.
Summary: "James Carlos Blake is a master at weaving historical fact into fiction. Two generations of Wolfe men--begat by an English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828--track their violent but manifest destiny through the Diaz Regime in Mexico in the early 1900s and back to Gulf Coast Texas. The novel centers on two sets of identical "hero twins," each with a violent history that mirror the author's belief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2012