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Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Louisiana Purchase Power (Social sciences) United States Territorial expansion United States United States Commerce History 19th century United States Economic conditions 19th century United States Politics and government 1897-1901 United States Territorial expansion United States Territorial expansion Juvenile literatureRaum, Elizabeth.
Summary: "Describes the causes of and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on US history"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, A Capstone Imprint 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 RAUDollarhide, William
Summary: "The Great Roads of 1840. Motivated by the need for clear, readable maps, this new American Migration Routes: Part II features descriptions of the same travel routes as Henry S. Tanner's 1840 American Traveller; but adds all new maps for each of the forty-five travel hub cities from the 1840 guidebook. Modern Highway Maps. The trace of an 1840 travel route is emphasized on a current road map....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Roots Publishing Company 2022
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: 304.873 DOLHarris, Duchess
Summary: In the early 1800s, white Americans sought out more lands. The 1830 Indian Removal Act allowed the US government to trade lands with Native Americans. But officials often forcibly removed Native peoples from their homelands. This book describes this period of forced removal and its lasting effects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J975.004 HARSummary: If they are human, they're a separate species, said Charley Russell about cowboys. This episode shows us the West of Frederic Remington and Charley Russell, whose works transformed the working cowboy into the most enduring hero-figure in American folklore. Russell became a living representative of the West he portrayed, the poet laureate of the passing frontier. In their very different ways, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Drury, Bob
Summary: "The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 CLACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 DRUSummary: The West fueled an entire industry: the entertainment business. When the first Western movie was shown, the audience stood up, cheered, and shouted for a re-run. Said Bronco Billy Anderson, "That's it. It's going to be the picture business for me. The future has no end. This program shows the West as the subject of popular culture and show business, the greatest circus act in the world, from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: It searched for the mythical Northwest Passage. It clashed with American interests during the War of 1812. It even had a hand in the division of Oregon. This program chronicles the epic history of the Hudson's Bay Company, the world's oldest continuous commercial enterprise still in existence. Adapted from Peter C. Newman's best-seller and narrated by former NewsHour anchor Robert MacNeil, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The Rocky Mountains were "like the stairs of heaven after the last soul has ascended earth," said Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Said Sitting Bull of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, "Our young men rained lead across the river and drove the white braves back. This is the time of the Civil War in the East, the last of the Indian Wars, the final spike in the transcontinental railroad. Thomas Moran and Albert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Through wars, depressions, and social upheavals, the West has accommodated to change while remaining a mythical land of freedom and possibility. The ghosts of the buffalos are still stirring. Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood have given way to Native American artists; Indians-once the subjects of painting-have become its practitioners. So the myth regenerates itself and the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Here is the saga of Manifest Destiny, the banner under which Americans surged westward in the mid-19th century. It is the story of the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War that doubled the size of the young United States, the gold strikes that doubled its wealth, and the pioneer spirit that made the Oregon Trail into Main Street.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Richardson, Heather Cox
Summary: "While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 RICHahn, Steven
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's provocative reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War (and leading into the twentieth century); the next volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner. In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn takes on the conventional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 HAHSummary: Trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the bitter winter of 1846, nearly 90 members of the Donner and Reed families longed for California's “Promised Land.” But a previously untraveled shortcut became a road to madness, death, and cannibalism. Members of the Donner party ate human flesh when they were caught snowbound just 150 miles from the end of their 2,500-mile trip across the United...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1992
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Summary: While America was founded as a free land in which people could live out their own destinies, it came at a terrible cost to Native Americans. The Pilgrims laid the groundwork for religious freedom, while the Puritan-led Salem Witch Trials were a frightening reminder of superstition and intolerance. The nation's population migrates westward, emboldened by a new philosophy called Manifest Destiny;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Through first-hand accounts, viewers relive the rush for gold and other opportunities in the West and witness the effect of westward migrations on Native Americans. This program explores the adventures of the ’49ers on the overland trails and witness the prosperity of the gold rush towns like San Francisco, as well as broken treaties with the Plains Indians and the slaughter of Native American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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De Voto, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.1 DEVFenster, J. M. (Julie M.)
Summary: "The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration, sending out waves of expeditions into the West after the Louisiana Purchase. In presiding over that era of discovery, Jefferson forged a great nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 FENSummary: The size and shape of American government is due in no small part to Chief Justice John Marshall. This biography focuses on his contribution to the status of the Supreme Court, his implementation of judicial review, and his advocacy of strong central authority for the protection of the new nation and its ideals. Outlining Marshall's youth on the Virginia frontier, the program describes his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: No sport is more American than baseball, but, contrary to popular opinion, the game likely predates the birth of our nation and has substantial roots overseas. This program explores baseball's origins as a folk pastime and depicts the early phases of its complex evolution. Refuting the myth that Civil War general Abner Doubleday single-handedly invented the game, the film looks at parallels in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Kinzer, Stephen
Summary: Recalls the forgotten political debate at the beginning of the twentieth century over America's role in the world, with the country's political and intellectual leaders advocating either imperial expansion or restraint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.73009 KINSummary: How did it feel to be bought and sold like cattle, only to be liberated with nowhere to go and no one to turn to for help? In this profoundly moving program, Ted Koppel of ABC News presents the African-American slave experience in the voices of those who knew it firsthand. Thanks to tapes-now digitally remastered-from a project undertaken during the 1930s and 40s by John Henry Falke and others,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This episode of The Conquerors profiles John C. Fremont, military officer and explorer, known as 'The Great Pathfinder'. Moving to the territory of California, he found adventure leading an expedition, and then upon becoming a U.S. Senator, in representing the new state.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Thomas, Evan
Summary: From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010