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The Greenwood Press daily life through history seriesTaylor, Candacy A.
Summary: "A young reader's edition of Candacy Taylor's acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America." For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 TAYHartman, Saidiya V.
Summary: "A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HARRoosevelt, Eleanor
Summary: "Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book."--Jill Lepore, from the Introduction
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books, an imprint of Perseus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 ROOHedges, Chris.
Summary: "In the vein of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco bring us a searing on-the-ground report on the crisis gripping underclass America and crime-ridden poverty enclaves--in prisons, urban slums, and rural communities--metastasizing around the nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 HEDMusgrave, John
Summary: "A Marine's searing and intimate memoir about surviving Vietnam and its aftermath"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUSGRAVE, JOHN MUSKeane, Erin
Summary: "In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEANE, ERIN KEAO'Rourke, P. J
Summary: A portrait of the baby boom generation celebrates the bad trips, questionable politics, and outrageous styles of the author and his generation while analyzing how the boom shaped contemporary America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.54 OROLeonhardt, David
Summary: "Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 LEODaughters of the American Revolution
Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDGaines, James R.
Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAITalbot, David
Summary: 'By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 TALPutnam, Robert D.
Summary: "An eminent political scientist's brilliant synthesis of social and political trends over the past century that shows how we have gone from an individualistic society to a more communitarian society and then back again -- and how we can use that experience to overcome once again the individualism that currently weakens our country"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.5 PUTGlaser, Gabrielle
Summary: "The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.734 GLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.7340 GLAHendricks, Nancy
Summary: "From Beatniks to Sputnik and Princess Grace to Peyton Place, this book illuminates the female half of America's population as they entered a "brave new world" that revolutionized women's lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 HENSummary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREHall, Alvin D.
Summary: "Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent encounters almost everywhere, in both the South and the North. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HALTrillin, Calvin
Summary: An anthology of previously uncollected essays, originally published in "The New Yorker," reflects the work of the eminent journalist's early career and traces his witness to the fledgling years of desegregation in Georgia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 TRISummary: Declares "the American century", the name Henry Luce gave to an era of American prosperity beginning in 1941, dead, and collects essays explaining what the American century was and meant, and why many believe it has met a premature demise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 SHOSummary: The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXCarlson, Tucker
Summary: From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times best-selling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America's long slide from innocence to orthodoxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 CAR1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult CarlsonWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ROOSEVELT FAMILY WARSteinbeck, John
Summary: "There is no writer more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. More than three decades after his death, he remains one of America's most beloved authors. Yet his nonfiction--the writings in which he spoke directly about his world--have long been overlooked. Now, in celebration of the centennial of his birth, this original collection brings together for the first time more than fifty of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.9 STESummary: Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROOSerrin, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001