Summary: "From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 AMEContents: Dear boy / W. H. Cobb -- Defeated, again / Detroit Free Press -- Life is short / Frank Navin -- A new home / E. A. Batchelor -- A day with Cobb / F. C. Lane -- A baseball romance / Baseball Magazine -- To war / Chicago Tribune -- Germany the jokester / Hugh Jennings -- Ownie Carroll / Babe Ruth -- Schoolboy / C. E. Parker -- Yearning for Detroit / Vera Brown -- Game four / Damon Runyon --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 STASummary: Features an assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by famous African-American musicians, writers, and activists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK EVEGrundset, Eric
Contents: Developing a Connecticut research strategy -- Major research centers in Connecticut and elsewhere with Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in Connecticut -- Pre-revolutionary events in the Colony of Connecticut -- General histories of the American Revolution in Connecticut -- General Revolutionary War sources -- The Government of Connecticut as a Colony and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 974.6 GRUNorton, James S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.S. Norton 1973
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3749 NortonSchwartz, Heather E.
Summary: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Freedom Riders during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.11 SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Civil SchwartzDoyle, Abby Badach
Summary: "To many people, a diary is like a trusted friend - somewhere to share their true (and sometimes secret) thoughts and feelings. In this book, explore more than 200 years of American history through the eyes of real people who lived through it... and, lucky for us, wrote about it, too! In this book, learn what makes diaries and autobiographies different, why they matter, and how to think...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DOYLangston-George, Rebecca
Summary: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Dust Bowl"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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Summary: This book describes the nature of English historical records over the period 1200-1800. It surveys the records created by the state, the estates of landlords, and the Church. The work arises from an intensive research project (1973-81), which involved the manual and computerised analysis of all the surviving records for two parishes, in Westmorland and Essex, up to 1800. The book considers the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1983
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.342 MACMiller, Douglas J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quintin Publications 1997
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2 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.371 MILRenehan, Edward
Summary: The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem?s influential Crowninshield family: a clan of millionaire shipowners, cabinet secretaries, and congressmen. A prosecution team led by famed Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster made the case even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 RENWilson, Victoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kinseeker Publications 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3775 WilsonSummary: "A selection of transcribed audio recordings from 1973 covers Nixon and Kissinger's private knowledge of flaws in the 1973 Vietnam peace agreement and the early warnings about the Yom Kippur War in the Middle East,"--Novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.924 BRIBrockenbrough, Martha
Summary: "A timely and important picture book that introduces readers to Wong Kim Ark, who challenged the Supreme Court for his right to be an American citizen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARKFleet, Beverley
Summary: "In this reprint edition the contents [of the original 34 volumes] have been rearranged, re-typed, and consolidated in three hardcover volumes, each with its own master index."--Title page verso.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1988
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3 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FLE VOL 1Call number: R GEN 929.3755 FLE VOL 2
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Grenham, John
Summary: The fifth edition of Tracing Your Irish Ancestors retains its familiar three-part structure, combining a detailed guide for beginners with thorough descriptions of all the useful sources and county-by-county reference lists. Additionally, all of the changes that have been brought about by modern technology - internet records and DNA testing, which make researching your family background easier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gill Books 2019
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 GREGrundset, Eric.
Contents: Developing a New York State research strategy -- Major research centers in New York State and elsewhere with Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in New York State suggested sources for New York georgraphy to help determine place of residence of individuals -- Pre-revolutionary events in the province of New York -- General histories of the American Revolution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3747 GrundsetHamilton, Alexander
Summary: The smash-hit musical Hamilton presents its central character as a truth-telling immigrant boot-strapper who used his extraordinary intelligence to make good--but what was he really like? Let the man himself, a prolific and extremely effective writer, tell his story in his own words. Organized chronologically, this collection of Alexander Hamilton's personal letters, business and governmental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.409 HAMHanson, George A.
Summary: Genealogy records for Kent County, Maryland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Co. 1996
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 HANLeBeau, Patrick Russell
Summary: Rethinking Michigan Indian History is a teaching tool that honors the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi and the twelve federally recognized tribes of Michigan by recognizing their role and place in Michigan history--exploring what most people know (or do not know) about them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 LEBSummary: Michigan’s location among the Great Lakes has positioned it at the crossroads of many worlds. Its first hunters arrived ten thousand years ago, its first farmers arrived about six thousand years after that, and three hundred years ago the French expanded into the territory. This book is a small sample of the words of Michigan’s people—a collection of stories, letters, diary entries, news...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 GREContents: Have guitar will travel (Scotty Moore Trio) -- Little Queenie (Chuck Berry) -- Lucille (Little Richard) -- Diddley Daddy (Bo Diddley) -- First time I met the blues (Buddy Guy) -- I'm gonna murder my baby (Pat Hare) -- Rollin' stone (Muddy Waters) -- Bright lights big city (Jimmy Reed) -- Poison ivy (The Coasters) -- Blue Monday (Fats Domino) -- Confessin' the blues (Jay McShann) -- All I have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mojo 2015
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJSummary: Journal of life in Leelanau county, Michigan 1866-67, plus biographical sketches of principal characters, and Cate and Hannaford family history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Solon Township 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 REM1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.4635 REM