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Civil rights United States Constitutional history United States Constitutional law United States History Depressions 1929 United States Liberty United States Constitution United States History 1901-1953 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States History Study and teaching United States Politics and government 1901-1953Rothman, Lily
Summary: A workbook that examines American history on a middle school level. Organized by key concepts, the text includes mnemonic devices, definitions, timelines and doodles to help the subject stick in your brain, so you can ace your class.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 973 ROTMcGeehan, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's Educational Series 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 MCGSummary: Orson Welles' radio broadcast of War of the Worlds panicked Americans across the country. In the U.K., Neville Chamberlain delivered his famous speech, Peace in Our Times.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Examines a major 1931 earthquake in Nicaragua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Looks at the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son. Bruno Hauptmann was subsequently arrested and his sensational trial in 1935 captivated the nation.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Explores the events and trends of 1930, including the Great Depression and Mt. Rushmore. Charles Lindbergh and wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh's record-setting, coast-to-coast flight is also covered.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Observes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's reassuring fireside chats and the death of gangster John Dillinger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Examines World War II in Europe in 1940.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In this episode, when the paper trail runs out, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits scientists who are using DNA analysis to trace ancestral roots. With results in hand he meets with leading historians of the slave trade and discovers more fascinating details about his own ancestry. Finally, Professor Gates and a guest journey to Africa, where they visit the port from which the guest’s patrilineal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Looks at FDR's famed 'Nothing to Fear' speech and the 1933 repeal of Prohibition.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: 1939 brought momentous events that changed the course of history. Year by Year looks at the beginnings of World War II and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pledge of neutrality.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Looks at the political landscape of 1936, including FDR's landslide re-election in the U.S., King Edward's abdication in the U.K., and the New Deal.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: This program examines America's fascinating national experience with third parties and independent candidates, covering more than 200 years of American political history. The program looks back to the birth of the two-party system and explores the most influential third-party movements in American political history, including Abraham Lincoln and the rise of the Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Loewen, James W.
Summary: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 LOESummary: September 24th, 1789—the First United States Congress establishes the basic structure of the Federal Judiciary. With this act, the American legal system becomes an entity entwined with our fundamental notions of democracy and fair government, equal in power and authority to the Executive and Legislative branches. This program guides viewers through the history of the Judiciary and illustrates...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Is American citizenship all about personal freedom and the rights of the individual? Or should the concept of the “good citizen” take precedence, underscoring the duties and contributions an individual owes to society? Where does immigration fit in? This program helps students sift through various meanings of American citizenship and the historical forces that have shaped it. With energetic...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Although the office of the President personifies American leadership, the Legislative branch was actually designed to hold at least as much power as the Executive, if not more. Many Founding Fathers envisioned Congress as the primary governing body, given its closeness, politically speaking, to the people. This program examines the origins, history, and activities of the U.S. House of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Seidule, Ty
Summary: "In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SEISummary: Throughout the 1930s and 40s, John L. Lewis was the most powerful figure in the U.S. labor movement. This episode of A&E Classroom examines the president of the United Mine Workers of America, an independent and strong-willed leader who secured rights and benefits for the miners. A major force behind the founding of the CIO, Lewis also played a role in Franklin D. Roosevelt's election.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: The 20th century began with enormous hopes for a future made safe and humane by technology. Although it realized some of these hopes, the century neared its end under the shadow of superweapons that still threaten the earth with annihilation. In this program, Bill Moyers traces the evolution of three instruments that enabled combatants to mass-produce death-the machine gun, the submarine, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: A government of the people, by the people, and for the people isn’t possible without the laborious process of nominating and electing candidates, in a manner fair and free to all citizens. How did this process begin and how has it evolved over the course of American history? Does it even remotely resemble—for better or for worse—the manner in which the Founding Fathers gained high office? Using...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: The strategic key to the American Revolution, a vital transportation artery for a fledgling nation, and an enduring source of spiritual and artistic inspiration, the Hudson River is a true American icon. This Bill Moyers program focuses on the seminal role the Hudson has played in the development of America's culture, literature, art, economy, industry, and ideology. Interviews with historian...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this special performance edition of the Journal, actor Sam Waterston and historian Harold Holzer explore Lincoln's legacy and legend as defined in poetry and prose by significant American writers who, across the decades, have wrestled to envision Lincoln through the lens of their own experiences and times. Afterward, Bill Moyers sits down with Waterston and Holzer to talk about the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009