Stone, Tanya Lee.
Summary: Rhyming couplets that flow through the alphabet help kids celebrate everything from the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to Thomas Jefferson and Harriet Tubman.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Price Stern Sloan 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E STOSummary: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 PATSummary: Celebrate the talents and zaniness of Warner Bros.' Terminte Terrace. Whoop it up with an all-star array of 'toons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and more immortal Looneytics. Then see our heroes in wartime readiness. Legends Bosko and Buddy get their own long-overdue Warner compilation. Out of the mailbag comes a much-requested line-up of previously unavailable favorites.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOOKhiani, Darshana
Summary: "A beautifully illustrated, thought-provoking picture book depicts the broad range of cultures in America, the values that bring us together as one people despite our differences, and the many ways we define what it means to be an American"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KHISummary: Japan's first feature-length animated film set the stage for the rise of anime. A notable accomplishment for its time, the project was funded by the Navy Ministry of Japan during World War II. Along with another early masterpiece, Spider and Tulip (Kumo to chûrippu), these films are preserved as milestones of the industry and historical artifacts of the war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FUNimation 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOMBerry, Wendell
Summary: "Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a careful exploration of this hard, shared truth: The wealth of the mighty few governing this nation has been built on the unpaid labor of others. Without historical understanding of this practice of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shoemaker & Company 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Rather, Dan
Summary: "In a collection of original essays, the venerated television journalist, Dan Rather, celebrates our shared values and what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like. Writing about the institutions that sustain us, such as public libraries, public schools, and national parks; the values that have transformed us, such as the struggle for civil rights; and the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 323.6 RATRather, Dan
Summary: "In a collection of essays, the venerated television journalist celebrates our shared values, reminds us of what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 320 RATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.6 RATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.6 RATGreenwood, Lee
Summary: Presents a picture book adaptation of the patriotic song "God bless the U.S.A."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clovercroft Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 782 GREHass, Kristin Ann
Summary: Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explore the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Experience the great diversity of America on a trip through each of the 50 states and the many cultures, traditions, histories, and passions that define us. Taste sweet blueberries and baked beans in New England, hear the bustle of city music and the call of market vendors in the Mid-Atlantic, and watch the sunrise over gentle ridges and silent swamps in the Southeast. Attend city parades and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 POENaberhaus, Sarvinder.
Summary: A stirring poetic tribute to the beauty and wonder of America's symbols, history, landscape.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: JE CD Fiction Naberhaus 2017Peoples-Riley, Daria
Summary: "America, do you love me? A single question from a single child multiplies across the country with every page turn, inviting in more and more children of color--and their questions"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Webster, Christine.
Summary: Discusses the history and meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance, which was first published in The Youth's Companion in 1892 as part of a campaign to promote patriotism led by James B. Upham and Francis Bellamy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.65 WEBTaylor, Paul
Summary: "This book in the Civil War in the North series examines the Union League movement and its influence on the Northern home front in the Civil War."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TAYBuckey, Sarah Masters
Summary: While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCGoldberg, Jonah
Summary: "With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture ... Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril as they lose the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Instead we are surrendering to populism, nationalism and other forms of tribalism."--Amazon.com summary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 GOLMcKibben, Bill
Summary: Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 MCKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 MCKPark, Linda Sue.
Summary: With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PARWilson, Karma.
Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations present a recipe for how to bake a pie from all the things that make America great.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION WilsonGutfeld, Greg.
Summary: The host of the Fox News Channel's "Red Eye" uses countless examples from today's headlines to replace what he sees as the idiocy of openmindedness with a shrewd judgmentalism that rejects stupid ideas, notions, and people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Forum 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.87 GUTRather, Dan
Summary: "Brought to life in stunning color by artist Tim Foley, What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel takes apart the building blocks of this country, from the freedoms that define us, to the values that have transformed us, to the institutions that sustain us. Rather's vast experience and his unique perspective as one of America's most renowned newscasters shed light on who we were and who we are today,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second, an imprint of Roaring Books Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.65 RATSarid, Yishay
Summary: A gripping examination of the complexities of military service as experienced by Abigail, a psychologist who becomes implicated in the dilemmas soldiers encounter both on and off the battlefield.--adapted from book jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2022