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American Dream Enlightenment United States United States History 1783-1815 United States History 18th century United States History Colonial period, ca 1600-1775 Biography United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States Politics and government 1783-1865 Washington, George 1732-1799Isaacs, Sally Senzell
Summary: Investigates life in the thirteen original colonies, the events that led to the American Revolution, the war itself, and the early years of independence up to the adoption of the Constitution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
Format: moving image
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
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 2
Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3
Summary: Influential founding father, third President of the United States, lawyer, architect, and violinist: Thomas Jefferson has long fascinated students of American history. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "all men are created equal, and entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Yet Jefferson himself was a lifelong slaveholder and one of the first Americans...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The challenge of genealogical research is even more evident as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. continues back through the Colonial period of American history in this program. The film takes us on a journey to fill in the family trees of each of the series participants, through war service records and various records of property during slavery's apogee—including inventories, sales, or gifts of slaves. In...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Schanzer, Rosalyn.
Summary: Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2004
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Summary: The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 TAYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 TAYMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 MCDSummary: The story of the American nation begins with the founding of the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies, interactions with Native American peoples, the hardships and dangers that faced the colonists, the origins of the slave trade and a slave-dependent economy, and the tensions that developed between Britain and her New World territories as the colonies grew stronger and more self-sufficient.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Catton, Bruce
Summary: Examines the history of America from Columbus' explorations and the colonial era through the War of 1812.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CATMorgan, Edmund S.
Summary: An analysis of American colonial history, told in twenty-four essays, is categorized under such sections as "New Englanders," "Southerners," and "Revolutionaries" and features detailed discussions on a wide range of topics including early American leaders and the impact of slavery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004