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African Americans History Booth, John Wilkes 1838-1865 Feature films Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Race discrimination Racism Study and teaching Reconstruction (US history, 1865-1877) Sherman's March through the Carolinas Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) 1820-1891 United States History Civil War, 1861-1865Summary: General William Tecumseh Sherman's total war strategy against the South helped end the Civil War and forever changed the nation. Sherman's brutal and effective campaign, which not only saved the Lincoln presidency, the Union, and thousands of lives, but also made Sherman one of the most hated and controversial figures in American history. In November 1864, Sherman and an army of 60,000 troops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHESummary: Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINDoctorow, E. L.
Summary: In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then to the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities and accumulating a borne-along population of freed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOCMcElwee, Ross
Summary: After being left by a girlfriend, McElwee pursues his original plans for a documentary on Sherman's March, which changes into his personal search for a new girlfriend and focuses on the women he meets along the route.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features Home Video 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: In 1865, the laying down of arms was just the beginning of the long battle for equal rights facing African-Americans. After documenting the final months of the War Between the States-Lincoln's second inauguration, Sherman's march through the Carolinas, the Siege of Petersburg, the destruction of Richmond, General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and Lincoln's assassination-this program considers...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009