Author t Title t Call Summary, etc. note The 20th century: a moving visual history [videoreDVD cording]909.821 T971 2005 Chronicles the monumental changes in our world over the past 100 years.Side 1 A: The 1900s, The Seeds of Progress; The 1910s, The Modern Age Begins; The 1920s, A Decade of Contradictions. Side 1 B:The 1930s, The Great Depression; The 1940s, War, Recovery and Rebirth. Side 2 A: The 1950s, Promoting The American Dream; The 1960s, A Global Revolution. Side 2 B: The 1970s, Power Plays; The 1980s, A Decade of Decadence; The 1990's, America's Hard Drive. Ambrose Bierce: civil war stories [videorecording]DVD 813.4 A496 2007 A collection of three popular tales by author Ambrose Bierce told in his own words at a historic 1891 meeting with novelist Gertrude Atherton and publisher Williams Randolph Hearst. The American dream: the 50s 973.91 T583am The American president, volume 3: executive visionDVD 973.099 [videorecording] A512 V.3 2005 Episode 5: The American Way (Jefferson, Coolidge, Hoover, Reagan) Episode 6: The World Stage (Monroe, McKinley, Wilson, Bush). The American Revolution: one nation's rise to DVDindep 973.3endence, A512 volume V.1 2007 1 [videorecording]Disc 1: The American Revolution: The conflict ignites, The American Revolution: 1776. The American Revolution: one nation's rise to DVDindep 973.3endence, A512 volume V.2 2013 2 [videorecording]Disc 2: The American Revolution:Washignton & Arnold, The American Revolution: The world at war. The American Revolution: one nation's rise to DVDindep 973.3endence, A512 volume V.3 2013 3 [videorecording]Disc 3:The American Revolution: England's last chance, The American Revolution: Birth of the Republic. The American Revolution: one nation's rise to DVDindep 973.3endence, A512 volume V.4 2013 4 [videorecording]Disc 4: Biography:George Washington: Founding Father, Biography: Benjamin Franklin: Citizen of the World. The American Revolution: one nation's rise to DVDindep 973.3endence, A512 volume V.5 2013 5 [videorecording]Disc 5: Biography: Paul Revere:The Midnight Rider, Biography: Benedict Arnold: Triumph and Treason. The awakening land [videorecording] DVD 791.437 A887 2014 Based on Conrad Richter's book triliogy--The Trres, The Fields, and The Town, this television mini-series "celebrates the pioneering spirit as it chronicles Sayward Luckett's heroic unadorned life." Originally broadcast in 1978. Benjamin Franklin [videorecording] DVD 92 F831 2015 Traces Franklin's epic life from humble beginnings to fame as a scientist, founding father, and America's first diplomat to France. Citizen Tanouye [videorecording] DVD 940.53 C581 2011 Eight ethnically diverse students from Torrance, California, bring history to life as they research Technical Sergeant Ted Tanouye, a graduate of their school who was previously awarded the MEdal of Honor for his service in WWII. Through their research of Citizen Tanouye, the students not only discover the impact the war had on their city, but also draw attention to the civil rights abuses of WWII-era America. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: letters from children of the973.917 Great C678d Depression. 2008 Presents nealy 200 of the extraordinary documents to open a window into the lives of the Depression's youngest victims. Death and the Civil War [videorecording] DVD 973.7 D285 2012 Explores a dessential but largely overlooks aspect of the most pivotal event in American history. The emergence of modern America: the greatDVD depressi 973.916on [videorecording] Em52 2014 Uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of the early 20th century, and the roaring twenties, and the Great Depression. The grapes of wrath [videorecording] DVD 813.52 G766 2009 The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Hard times, the 30s 973.917 T583h Liberty's kids: the complete series, volume 1 [videDVDorecording] 973.3 L695 2013 Set in late-18th-century America, tells the story of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin's two teenage apprentice reporters. Liberty's kids: the complete series, volume 2 [videDVDorecording] 973.3 L695 V.2 2013 Set in late-18th-century America, tells the story of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin's two teenage apprentice reporters. Liberty's kids: the complete series, volume 3 [videDVDorecording] 973.3 L695 V.3 2013 Set in late-18th-century America, tells the story of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin's two teenage apprentice reporters. The men who built American [videorecording] DVD 338.0973 M534 2013 Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. Pride and prosperity: the 80s 973.927 T583pp Rock & roll generation: teen life in the 50's 781.66/T583r Ronald Reagan: the wisdom and humor of the973.927 Great Co R287mmunicator Speeches that changed the world. 808.85 S645s 2007 The stories and transcripts of the moments that made history.; Contents: Moses, Jesus of Nazareth, Mohammed, St. Francis of Assisi, Queen Elizabeth I, King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Mohandas Gandhi, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, Clarence Darrow, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Vyacheslav Molotov, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, Jr, Emperor Hirohito, Jawaharlal Nehru, J. Robert Oppenheimer, General Douglas MacArthur, Nelson Mandela, Eamon de Valera, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Pierre Trudeau, Golda Meir, Richard M. Nixon, Indira Gandhi, Chaim Herzog, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, F. W. de Klerk, Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel, George W. Bush. The story of America, volume 3: Portraits of AmeriDVD can973 presidentsS887 V.3 2009 [videorecording]Contents: Triumph and turmoil shape the presidency. Includes: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Geroge W. Bush. Time of transition : the 70's 973.924 T583ti The ultimate Civil War series [videorecording] DVD 973.7 UL47 2013 Traces the causes and courses, as well as the major events and personalities, of the American Civil War. Between 1861 and 1865, this epic American story of struggle and survival was written in blood. This series is told mostly from first-hand accouts and in the spoken words of the participants themselves, through their diaries, letters, and memoirs. Witness this profound time in history with extreme detail and historically accurate recreations performed by more than 20,000 re-enactors. Unforgettable: the Korean war [videorecording]DVD 951.904 Un56 2013 Take a powerful journey with Korean WAr veterans as they share memories and emotions of America in the early 1950s, when young men from all over the country were being shipped off to defend South Korea against the advancing Communist Army,. We shall remain: America through native eyes,DVD volum 970.004e 3 [videorecording] W512 V.3 2011 Geronimo; Wounded Knee: tells the story of the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee, examining the broad political and economic forces that led to the emergence of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s. The west [videorecording] DVD 978 W516 2009 Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century . Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. / Contents--Disc 1: The People--Disc 2: Empire upon the trails; The speck of the future-- Disc 3: Death runs riot; The grandest enterprise under God--Disc 4: Fight no more forever; the geography of hope--Disc 5: Ghost dance; One sky above us. Adie, Kate Fighting on the homefront: the legacy of women940.308 in W orldA235f War 2016 one In 1914, war came to the homefront. While whole streets of men disappeared to fight, the strengths and abilities of the women at home were to be counted on as never before--or there would be no victory. Princesses to parlourmaids stepped away from their formal roles to take on the needs of the country. Through her unique first-hand research, Kate Adie throws a vivid new light on the era, showing just how momentous the achivements were of those pioneering women. She charts a giant stride that would forever leave its legacy. Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world.332.1 A285L 2010 Tells the stories of the men in charge of the four principal central banks of the world after World War I, Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Émile Moreau of the Banque de France, Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank in Germany, and Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who attempted to reconstruct international finance after World War I and return to the gold standard. He describes how, in the mid-1920s, they appeared to succeed in stabilizing the world's currencies, aiding the flow of capital, and creating economic growth, and the subsequent problems that lead to the Great Depression. Alcott, Louisa May. Little women [sound recording]. CD 823.7 A933p 2006 March sisters enter adulthood in New England at the time of the Civil War. Alexander, Michelle The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age364.973 of colorblindness A422n 2014 In this stunning and incisive critique, civil rights lawyer- turned-legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply resigned it. Alexander shows that by targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control. In the current era, it is no longer permissable to use race explicitly, as a justification ofr discrimination, exclusion and social contempt. Yet it is perfectly legal to disciminate against African Americans. The old forms of discrimination--discrimination in employment, housing, education, and public benefits; denial of the right to vote; and exclusion from jury service--are suddenly legal once you're labeled a felon. Allen, Ray. Gone to the country: the New Lost City Ramblers781.62 & t heA428g folk 2011music revival. Gone to the Country chronicles the life and music of the New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of city-bred musicians who helped pioneer the resurgence of southern roots music during the folk revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. Altschiller, Donald Hate crimes: a reference handbook 364.15 A465h 2017 Hate crime is a disturbing phenomenon that is the subject of constant debate, discussion, and legislation. This book helps readers understand the complex issue and see how the government and activists are proactively combating hate crime. Presents a unique listing of audio-visual sources, including the most comprehensive annotated entries of magazine articles and other books on the topic. Provides the most comprehensive source for U.S. congressional hearings and legislation on hate crimes. Supplies a wide range of viewpoints on the philosophical and legal arguments both in support of and in opposition to hate crime legislation Anderson, Fred The war that made America: a short history of973.2 the F renchA545w and 2016 Indian war In 1754, an inexperienced George Washington marched under the British flag to take control of the French-occupied Ohio River Forks. The resulting skirmish initiated a global conflict that shaped a generation and remade the face of colonial North America. By 1763, Great Britain had stripped France of its North American colonies, undermined the ability of native peoples to determine their destinies, and lit the "long fuse" of the American Revolution. In this beautifully illustrated companion volume to the PBS television series, award-winning historian Fred Anderson takes readers on a remarkable journey through this enthralling--and largely misunderstood--chapter of our past. Aretha, David. Freedom summer. 323.119 A682f 2010 Expands on racism, because by early 1960s the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation based on race was illegal in schools and on public transportation. Despite these advances, whites who were determined to stop the advancement of civil rights, harrassed black and volunteers to help with the COFO. Aretha, David. Selma and the voting rights act. 324.6 A682s 2010 Describes what was happening in the 1960's with the civil rights movement, and how King and people all over the nation marched in Selma in demand for justice for all, and to end the hatred that was tearing the country apart. Aronson, Marc. John Withrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the land of92 prom W514wise. Looks at how the lives of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England, were intertwined at a time of conflict between church and state and between Native and European Americans. Austin, Lynn. Hidden places. 813.54 A936h Babb, Sanora Whose names are unknown 813.54 B112w 2013 Tells f the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. This powerful narrative is based upon the author's firsthand experience. Baldwin, Louis. Intruders within : Pueblo resistance to Spanish978.902 rule and B181i the revolt 2005 of 1680. Recounts how the Pueblo Indians revolted against colonial Spanish rule in 1680, becoming the first group of Native Americans to expel their conquerors and reclaim their way of life. Balk, Alfred The rise of radio: from Marconi through the Golden384.541 Age B183r 2015 As the dominant electronic mass communication in the United States from the 1930s into the 1950s, radio fused myriad subcultures into a national identity. This sweep of radio history, from its birth as Marconi's "wireless telegraph" through its current status, analyzes the changing medium's social, political, and cultural impact. It casts new light on topics like the roles of women and African Americans, programming sources outside the Hollywood-Broadway nexus, and arguments about Amos 'n' Andy, once the hit that jump-started radio's networks, now a controversial remnant of a bygone era. The book is augmented with photographs, extensive source notes, and a bibliography. Barney, William L. The Civil War and reconstruction : A student compan973.7 B261ion. Batchelor, Bob The 1980s 306.097 B328n 2016 Topics include Everyday America, World of Youth, Advertising, Architecture, Fashion, Food, Leisure Activities, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Travel. and Visual Arts. Beals, Melba, I will not fear : 92 B366i 2018 While her white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing the business end of a double-barreled shotgun, being threatened with lynching by rope-carrying tormentors, and learning how to outrun white supremacists who were ready to kill her rather than sit beside her in a classroom. Only her faith in God sustained her during her darkest days and helped her become a civil rights warrior, an NBC television news reporter, a magazine writer, a professor, a wife, and a mother. Berg, Barbara J. Sexism in America: alive, well, and ruining our 305.420future. B493s 2012 Author debunks the many myths about how far women have come and the pervasive belief that ours if a postfeminist society. Combining authoritative research and compelling storytelling, Berg traces the assault on women's status from the 1950s to the present, exploring the deception about women's progress and contextualizing our current situation. Author t Title t Call Summary, etc. note Bernstein, Carl. All the president's men. PB B531a Bjornlund, Lydia. Women of colonial America. 973.2 B626w 2006 Bonhomme, Brian, editorMilestone in chief. documents in world history: exploring909 the S438mw primary v.1 sources 2010 that shapedContents: the v.1-- world. Reform Edict of Urukagina-- Code of Hammurabi-- Hittite Laws--Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut-- Egyptian-Hitite Peace Treaty-- Middle Assyrian Laws-- Victory Stela of Pianhki-- "Mandate of Heaven: The Numerous Officers"-- Twelve Tables of Roman Law-- Funeral Oration of Pericles-- Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"-- Constitution of Sparta-- Constitution of Carthage-- Athenian Constitution-- Canon of Filial Piety-- Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka-- Discourses in Salt and Iron-- Law of Ceasar on Municipalities-- Deeds of the Divine Augustus-- Popol Vuh-- Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire-- Theodosian Code-- Code of Justinian-- Prince Shotoku's Seventeen-Article Constitution-- New Year's Day Taika Refrom Edict-- Capitulary of Charlemagne-- Han Yu's "Memorial on the Buddha's Bones"-- II Aethelstan, or the Grately Code-- Wang Kon's Ten Injunctions-- Russkaia Pravada, or Justice of the Rus-- Al-Mawardi's "On Qadis" v.2-- Kai Jaus on the Purchase of Slaves-- Domesday Book-- Nizam Al-Mulk's Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings-- Urban II's Call to Crusade-- Constitutions of Clarendon-- Usama IBN Munqidh's "A Muslim View of the Crusaders"-- Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan-- Magna Carta-- Boniface VIII's Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam-- Marco Polo's Description of Hangzhou-- IBN Khladun's "Social Solidarity"-- Christopher Columbus's Letter to Raphael Sanzis on the Discovery of America-- Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince-- Requerimento-- Marthin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses-- Dutch Declaration of Independence-- Laws Governing Military Households-- Japan's Closed Country Edict-- Treaty of Westphalia-- Ulozheniie, or Great Muscovite Law Code-- Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration-- English Bill of Rights-- John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government-- British Regulating Act-- Declaration of the Rigfhts of Man and of the Citizen and Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen-- Qianlong's Letter to George III-- Constitution of Haiti-- Diplomatic Correspondence Between Muhammad Al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello-- Simon Bolivar's Cartagena Manifesto-- Carlsbad Decrees-- Treaty of Cordoba-- Act for the Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Colonies Bonhomme, Brian, editorMilestone in chief. documents in world history: exploring909 the S438mw primary v.2 sources 2010 that shapedContents: the v.1-- world. Reform Edict of Urukagina-- Code of Hammurabi-- Hittite Laws--Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut-- Egyptian-Hitite Peace Treaty-- Middle Assyrian Laws-- Victory Stela of Pianhki-- "Mandate of Heaven: The Numerous Officers"-- Twelve Tables of Roman Law-- Funeral Oration of Pericles-- Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"-- Constitution of Sparta-- Constitution of Carthage-- Athenian Constitution-- Canon of Filial Piety-- Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka-- Discourses in Salt and Iron-- Law of Ceasar on Municipalities-- Deeds of the Divine Augustus-- Popol Vuh-- Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire-- Theodosian Code-- Code of Justinian-- Prince Shotoku's Seventeen-Article Constitution-- New Year's Day Taika Refrom Edict-- Capitulary of Charlemagne-- Han Yu's "Memorial on the Buddha's Bones"-- II Aethelstan, or the Grately Code-- Wang Kon's Ten Injunctions-- Russkaia Pravada, or Justice of the Rus-- Al-Mawardi's "On Qadis" v.2-- Kai Jaus on the Purchase of Slaves-- Domesday Book-- Nizam Al-Mulk's Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings-- Urban II's Call to Crusade-- Constitutions of Clarendon-- Usama IBN Munqidh's "A Muslim View of the Crusaders"-- Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan-- Magna Carta-- Boniface VIII's Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam-- Marco Polo's Description of Hangzhou-- IBN Khladun's "Social Solidarity"-- Christopher Columbus's Letter to Raphael Sanzis on the Discovery of America-- Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince-- Requerimento-- Marthin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses-- Dutch Declaration of Independence-- Laws Governing Military Households-- Japan's Closed Country Edict-- Treaty of Westphalia-- Ulozheniie, or Great Muscovite Law Code-- Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration-- English Bill of Rights-- John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government-- British Regulating Act-- Declaration of the Rigfhts of Man and of the Citizen and Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen-- Qianlong's Letter to George III-- Constitution of Haiti-- Diplomatic Correspondence Between Muhammad Al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello-- Simon Bolivar's Cartagena Manifesto-- Carlsbad Decrees-- Treaty of Cordoba-- Act for the Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Colonies Bonhomme, Brian, editorMilestone in chief. documents in world history: exploring909 the S438mw primary v.3 sources 2010 that shapedContents: the v.1-- world. Reform Edict of Urukagina-- Code of Hammurabi-- Hittite Laws--Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut-- Egyptian-Hitite Peace Treaty-- Middle Assyrian Laws-- Victory Stela of Pianhki-- "Mandate of Heaven: The Numerous Officers"-- Twelve Tables of Roman Law-- Funeral Oration of Pericles-- Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"-- Constitution of Sparta-- Constitution of Carthage-- Athenian Constitution-- Canon of Filial Piety-- Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka-- Discourses in Salt and Iron-- Law of Ceasar on Municipalities-- Deeds of the Divine Augustus-- Popol Vuh-- Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire-- Theodosian Code-- Code of Justinian-- Prince Shotoku's Seventeen-Article Constitution-- New Year's Day Taika Refrom Edict-- Capitulary of Charlemagne-- Han Yu's "Memorial on the Buddha's Bones"-- II Aethelstan, or the Grately Code-- Wang Kon's Ten Injunctions-- Russkaia Pravada, or Justice of the Rus-- Al-Mawardi's "On Qadis" v.2-- Kai Jaus on the Purchase of Slaves-- Domesday Book-- Nizam Al-Mulk's Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings-- Urban II's Call to Crusade-- Constitutions of Clarendon-- Usama IBN Munqidh's "A Muslim View of the Crusaders"-- Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan-- Magna Carta-- Boniface VIII's Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam-- Marco Polo's Description of Hangzhou-- IBN Khladun's "Social Solidarity"-- Christopher Columbus's Letter to Raphael Sanzis on the Discovery of America-- Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince-- Requerimento-- Marthin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses-- Dutch Declaration of Independence-- Laws Governing Military Households-- Japan's Closed Country Edict-- Treaty of Westphalia-- Ulozheniie, or Great Muscovite Law Code-- Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration-- English Bill of Rights-- John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government-- British Regulating Act-- Declaration of the Rigfhts of Man and of the Citizen and Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen-- Qianlong's Letter to George III-- Constitution of Haiti-- Diplomatic Correspondence Between Muhammad Al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello-- Simon Bolivar's Cartagena Manifesto-- Carlsbad Decrees-- Treaty of Cordoba-- Act for the Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Colonies Bonhomme, Brian, editorMilestone in chief. documents in world history: exploring909 the S438mw primary v.4 sources 2010 that shapedContents: the v.1-- world. Reform Edict of Urukagina-- Code of Hammurabi-- Hittite Laws--Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut-- Egyptian-Hitite Peace Treaty-- Middle Assyrian Laws-- Victory Stela of Pianhki-- "Mandate of Heaven: The Numerous Officers"-- Twelve Tables of Roman Law-- Funeral Oration of Pericles-- Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"-- Constitution of Sparta-- Constitution of Carthage-- Athenian Constitution-- Canon of Filial Piety-- Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka-- Discourses in Salt and Iron-- Law of Ceasar on Municipalities-- Deeds of the Divine Augustus-- Popol Vuh-- Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire-- Theodosian Code-- Code of Justinian-- Prince Shotoku's Seventeen-Article Constitution-- New Year's Day Taika Refrom Edict-- Capitulary of Charlemagne-- Han Yu's "Memorial on the Buddha's Bones"-- II Aethelstan, or the Grately Code-- Wang Kon's Ten Injunctions-- Russkaia Pravada, or Justice of the Rus-- Al-Mawardi's "On Qadis" v.2-- Kai Jaus on the Purchase of Slaves-- Domesday Book-- Nizam Al-Mulk's Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings-- Urban II's Call to Crusade-- Constitutions of Clarendon-- Usama IBN Munqidh's "A Muslim View of the Crusaders"-- Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan-- Magna Carta-- Boniface VIII's Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam-- Marco Polo's Description of Hangzhou-- IBN Khladun's "Social Solidarity"-- Christopher Columbus's Letter to Raphael Sanzis on the Discovery of America-- Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince-- Requerimento-- Marthin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses-- Dutch Declaration of Independence-- Laws Governing Military Households-- Japan's Closed Country Edict-- Treaty of Westphalia-- Ulozheniie, or Great Muscovite Law Code-- Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration-- English Bill of Rights-- John Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government-- British Regulating Act-- Declaration of the Rigfhts of Man and of the Citizen and Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen-- Qianlong's Letter to George III-- Constitution of Haiti-- Diplomatic Correspondence Between Muhammad Al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello-- Simon Bolivar's Cartagena Manifesto-- Carlsbad Decrees-- Treaty of Cordoba-- Act for the Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Colonies Bonilla-Silva, EduardoRacism without racists: color-blind racism and305.800 the persistence B715r 2014 of racial inequalityEduardo in Bonilla-Silva'sAmerica acclaimed book documents how beneath our contemporary conversation about race lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for--and ultimately justify--racial inequalities. This provocative book explodes the belief that America is now a color-blind society. Borstelmann, ThomasThe 1970s: a new global history from civil rights909.82 to economic B738n 2016 inequality The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural Left and economic Right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simple a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment, with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. He demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. American culture and much of the rest of the world became more--and less--equal, transformations that continue to resonate today. Boyd, Julia The excellent doctor blackwell: the life of the fir92st B632e woman 2015 physician When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in American in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble's remark- "What, trust a woman doctor--never!" Yet by the time Dr. Blackwell died in 1910 there were hundreds of women praticing medicineon both sides of the Atlantic, thanks in no small part to her courage and determination. This is a remarkable story, and one by no means confined to medicine. It embraces slavery, the women's rights movement, the American Civil War and Elizabeth's personal tragedy (she lost an eye in Paris)--as well as a fascinating cast of characters from Abraham Lincoln to Florence Nightingale. Brand, Oscar Songs of '76: a folksinger's history of the revolut784.7ion Bran There are over 60 songs with words & guitar accompaniment along with a delightfully personalized historic commentary. These songs were collected from old manuscripts, old newspapers & from hundreds of accounts of the Revolution. Brands, H. W. The reckless decade: America in the 1890s 973.8 B817r 2016 Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In this book, H. W. Brands demonstrates how we can learn about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them through the lens of the 1890s. Brown, Andrew Art and ecology now 701.08 B877a 2015 From land art and earthworks in the 1960s to conceptual art of the new millennium, ecology-focused art has been a prominent genre in the art world for decades. This book offers a look into the recent explosion in contemporary art that deals directly with nature, the environment, climate change, and ecology. Organized into six thematic chapters, Art & Ecology Now moves through the various levels of artists’ engagement, from those who document and reflect on nature, to those who use the physical environment as the raw material for their art, and committed activists who set out to make art that transforms both our attitudes and our habits. Brown, Ellen H. The web of debt: the shocking truth about our332.109 money H691wsystem 2009and how we Unravelscan break the free. deception and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss towards which we are heading. It explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writing of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. If you care about financial security, your own or the nation's, you should read this book. Browne, Ray B. The Civil War and reconstruction 973.7 B882c 2016 The Civil War tore America apart. The ensuing era of Reconstruction sewed it back together. In this vivid look at the popular culture of the era, Browne and Kreiser examine how Americans coped with the trials and tribulations of this cataclysmic period. Bruner, Robert F. The Panic of 1907: lessons learned from the market'333.973s perfect B895p 2009storm. A highly readable account of the 1907 crisis and its management by the great private banker J. P. Morgan. Congress heeded the lessons of 1907, launching the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to prevent banking panics and foster financial stability. A century later we have a respected central bank as well as greater confidence in our money and our banks than our great-grandparents had in theirs. This book will be of interest not only to banking theorists and financial historians, but also to business school and economics students, for its rare ability to teach so clearly why and how a panic unfolds.". Buck, Rinker The Oregon trail: a new American journey 978 B922o 2016 An apic account of traveling the length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way--in a covered wagon with a team of mules, an audacious journey that hasn't been attempted in a century--which also chronicles the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the country. Bullock, Steven C. The American revolution : A History in documents.973 P134b 2003 Uses contemporary documents to explore the American Revolution, from the colonists' break with Great Britain throught the struggle to create a successful government for the new United States. Burks, Brian. Wrango. 813.52 B959w 2005 When young George McJunkin leaves his home in Texas and joins a cattle drive along the Chisholm Trail, he experiences the hardships of being a Black cowboy after the Civil War. Burt, Olive Wooley Sacajawea 92 S119b A biography of the Shoshoni Indian woman who acted as an interpreter, nurse, and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. Byrd, James P. Sacred scripture, sacred war 261.8 B995s 2013 This book offers an analysis of how American revolutionaries defended their patriotic convictions through scripture. Byrne, Malcolm Iran-Contra: Reagan's scandal and the unchecked320.973 abu seB995i of Presidential 2016 powerEverything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to "Contra" guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our sworn enemy and a state sponsor of terrorism), in exchange for help freeing hostages in Beirut. The profits, it turned out, were going to support the Contras, despite an explicit ban by Congress. Malcolm Byrne revists this largely forgotten and misrepresented episode. Placing the events in their historical and political context (the Cold War and a sharp partisan domestic divide), he explores what made the affair possible and meticulously relates how it unfolded--including clarifying minor myths about cakes, keys, bibles, diversion memos, and shredding parties. This book demonstrates that, far from being a "junta" against the president, the affair could not have occurred without awareness and approval at the very top of the U.S. government. Byrne reveals an unmistakable pattern of dubious behavior--including potentially illegal conduct by the president, vice president, the secretaries of state and defense, the CIA director and others--that formed the true core of the scandal. Cavanaugh, Jack. The adversaries. 813.54 C377a #4 Cavanaugh, Jack. The Patriots. 813.54 C377a #3 Chumley, Cheryl K. Police state USA : how our out-of-control governmen323.4 C559pt is turning 2014 Orwell's nightmareExplores how into radical reality environmentalism has eroded property rights, how the patriotic act has intruded on personal privacy, the extended reach of American intelligence in the name of security, the militarization of local police forces, how the national media misrepresent the polices of security, and much more. Churchill, Robert H. To shake their guns in the tyrant's face: libertari322.4an political C563t 2012 violence and theThe origins precedent of the ofmiliti 1774:a movement. the role of insurgent violence in the political theory of the founding -- The revolution as living memory: Fries' Rebellion and The Alien and Sedition Act crisis of 1798-1800 -- The libertarian memory of the revolution in the Antebellum Era -- The roots of modern patriotism: conscription, resistance, and the Sons of Liberty conspiracy of 1864 -- Cleansing the memory of the revolution: Americanism, the black legion, and the first Brown Scare -- The making of the second Brown Scare: liberal pluralism and the evolution of the white supremacist right -- The origins of the militia movement: violence and memory on the suburban-rural frontier -- An exploration of militia ideology: the Whig diagnosis of post-Cold War America -- Epilogue: the defense of liberty in the age of terror. Clark, Nancy L. South Africa: the rise and fall of Apartheid. 968.05 C594s 2012 Examines the history of South Africa throughout the period of apartheid, starting with the institution of the policy when the Nationalists came to power in 1948, through mounting opposition in the 1970s and 1980s, to its eventual collapse in the 1990s. Cook, Jane Hampton.Stories of faith and courage from the Revolutionary248.88 War. B336s #1 2011 Daily devotional providing inspiration and patriotic thoughts through more than 250 stories that capture the courage and spirit of the American Revolution. Cooper, Eleanor McCallie.Grace: an American woman in China. 92 D618c 2012 Grace Divine traveled to New York to study opera singing, but there she met Liu Fu-chi, and they were soon married and moved to China. Grace was to remain in China for the next forty years, living through the Japanese Occupation, the fall of the Nationalist government and the Communist Revolution, and the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Cooper, James FenimoreThe last of the Mohicans PB C777 The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery of the renegade brave Magua, the ambush of innocent settlers, and the thrilling events that lead to the final tragic confrontation between rival war parties create an unforgettable, spine-tingling picture of life on the frontier. And as the idyllic wilderness gives way to the forces of civilization, the novel presents a moving portrayal of a vanishing race and the end of its way of life in the great American forests. Coram, Robert. American patriot: the life and wars of colonel Bud92 D273c Day. 2011 In thr course of his military career, through World War II, Korea, and then Vietnam, Bud Day recieved every available combat medaul, escaped death on no fewer than seven occasions, and spent sixty-seven months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, where his roommate was John McCain. Despite horrendous torture, Day would not break. He became a hero to POWs everywhere- a man who fought without pause, a prisoner at war. But day's story didn't end when he returned home from Vietnam. He became a passionate advocate for veteran's rights, a champion for all who served their countru. And when the Clinton administration cut veterans' medical benefits, Bud Day knew that- however weary his bones- it was time to suit up for a new battle, this time against an oppponent he had never expected to face: the United States government. Coulter, E. Merton William G. Brownlow: fighting parson of the souther973.7 C855wn highlands Parson Brownlow was a circuit-riding Methodist minister, upstart journalist, and political activist who wielded a vitriolic tongue and pen in defense of both slavery and the Union. This 1937 biography traces his religious, journalistic, and political career. Although his interpretations were biased by racism, Brownlow's vision of the American South included Appalachians and African Americans at a time when his contemporaries ignored these groups. Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage and other stories. PB C891r Henry Fleming, a raw Union Army recruit in the American Civil War, is anxious to confirm his patriotism and manhood—to earn his “badge of courage.” But his dreams of heroism and invulnerability are soon shattered when he flees the Confederate enemy during his baptism of fire and then witnesses the horrible death of a friend. Plunged unwillingly into the nightmare of war, Fleming survives by sheer luck and instinct. It is supplemented by five of his acclaimed short stories as well as selected poetry, offering the full range of this great American author’s extraordinary talent. Crary, Catherine S. Price of loyalty : Tory writings from the revolutio973.314nary era. C893p 2006 Cruden, Alexander Watergate 973.924 C955w 2012 Contains the background, controversies, and narratives pertaining to the Watergate Scandal. Currell, Susan American culture in the 1920s 306.097 C975a 2016 The 1920s saw the United States rise to its current status as the leading world superpower, matched by an emerging cultural dominance that characterized the second half of the twentieth century. This book provides a stimulating account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade that have been pivotal to its characterization as 'the jazz age.' It places common representations of the 'roaring twenties' and the 'lost generation' into context, through chapters on literature, music, and performance, film and radio, and visual art and design, alongside the unprecedented rise of leisure and consumption in the 1920s. Davis, Burke Gray Fox: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War 92 L479d From the Confederacy's first call to arms, to the Appomattox surrender, Robert E. Lee forged his reputation as perhaps the most daring soldier in American history, renowned for his shrewdness, courage and audacity. Demos, John. The Unredeemed captive : A family story from973.25 early America. D387u Doherty, Kieran. Puritans, pilgrims, and merchants : Founders of974 the D655p Northeastern 2006 Colonies. Discusses the lives of eight people who were responsible for the founding of colonial settlements from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania. Doherty, Kieran. Soldiers, cavaliers, and planters : Settlers of the975.02 Southeastern D655s 2006 colonies. Discusses the lives of nine people who were responsible for the founding or fostering the growth of settlements in the colonial American South. Drury, Bob The heart of everything that is: the untold story978.004 of Red D796h Cloud, 2015 an AmericanRed legend Cloud, the great Sioux warrior-statesman, was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to the rediscovery of a lost autobiography and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of our nations most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told. The fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, and meticulous firsthand sourcing, is the definitive chronicle of the conflict between an expanding white civilization and the Plains Indians who stood in its way. Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne,An indigenous peoples' history of the United States970.004 D898i 2015 Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. As the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: "The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them." Duncan, Dayton The Dust Bowl: an illustrated history PIC D911d 2013 Draws on reports, newspaper articles, and interviews to chronicle the American Dust Bowl, providing photographs to illustrate the catastrophe as well as offer a tribute to man's relationship to the land and his ability to persevere. Egan, Timothy. The worst hard time: the untold story of those973.91 who survived E29 2006 the Great American Dust Bowl. Eisenhower, Julie NixonPat Nixon: the untold story 92 N736e The remarkable biography of Pat Nixon, the wife of former president Richard Nixon, as told by her daughter Julie Nixon-Eisenhower. Throughout the pages Julie describes her mother as a devoted, loyal, courageous, and remarkable woman who served as the quintessential First Lady. It's through Nixon's "grit" that enabled her to remain "onward and upward" during her struggling days as a student in the Depression, to the nightmares of the Watergate scandal. Ekbladh, David The great American mission: modernization and338.91 const E37grruction 2015 of an AmericanThe world Great order American Mission shows how the United States tried to remake the world in its own image during the twentieth century through global modernization efforts. David Ekbladh describes how New Deal programs became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, modernization became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. The events of the 1960's and the end of the Cold War discredited and obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. The Great American Mission offers challenging new interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad. Ellis, Joseph J. American creation: triumphs and tragedies at 973.3the fo E47aunding 2007 of the republic. Ellsworth, Scott The secret game: a wartime story of courage, 796.323change, E44seand basketball's 2015 lost Thetriumph true story of the game that never should have happened--and of a nation on the brink of monumental change In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America--a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone--until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history. Esty, Amos. Plessy vs. Ferguson. 342.730 E82pL 2011 In the decades following the end of the Civil War in 1865, the United States remained a divided country. Over the next three decades, Americans fought to determine how blacks and whites would live together now that slavery was abolished. In 1892, a black man named Homer Plessy challenged one of those laws by sitting in a whites-only railroad car. After he was arrested, his case made it all the way to the Supreme Court. Favor, Lesli J. Women doctors and nurses of the Civil War. 973.7 F275w 2004 Author t Title t Call Summary, etc. note Fenn, Elizabeth A. Pox Americana: the great smallpx epidemic of614.5 1775-8 F334p2. 2011 A horrifying epidemic of small pox was sweeping across North America when the War of Independence began, and until now we have known almost nothing about it. Fenn is the firs historian to reveal how deeply Variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone on the continent.The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-health crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this megatragedy was met and what its consequences were for the young republic. Ferling, John. Almost a miracle: the American victory in the war973.3 of F357a independence. 2010 This gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. It was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle." Almost a Miracle offers an illuminating portrait of America's triumph, offering vivid descriptions of all the major engagements, from the first shots fired on Lexington Green to the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, revealing how these battles often hinged on intangibles such as leadership under fire, heroism, good fortune, blunders, tenacity, and surprise. Finkelman, Paul, editor.Milestone documents of American leaders : Exploring973 S438mL the primary#1 2009 sources ofCONTENTS: notable Americans. v. 1. 1763-1823 -- Editorial and production staff --- Publisher's note -- Advisers and contributors -- Reader's guide -- Introduction -- Teaching with primary source documents -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Adams, Sam -- Adams, Abigail -- Addams, Jane -- Anthony, Susan B. -- Baker, Ella -- Baruch, Bernard -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Black, Hugo -- Blackmun, Harry -- Brandeis, Louis -- Brennan, William -- Bryan, William Jennings -- Buchanan, James -- Burger, Warren -- Burr, Aaron -- Bush, George W. -- Byrd, Robert -- Calhoun, John C. -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Chavez, Cesar -- Chisholm, Shirley -- Clay, Henry -- Cleveland, Grover -- Clinton, Bill -- Davis, Jefferson -- Debs, Eugene V. -- Dircksen, Everett -- Douglas, William O. -- Douglas, Stephen -- Douglass, Frederick -- v. 2. Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Dulles, Allen -- Dulles, John Foster -- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- Field, Stephen J. -- Frankfurter, Felix -- Franklin, Ben -- Fuller, Margaret -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Gerry, Elbridge -- Ginsberg, Ruth Bader -- Goldman, Emma -- Goldwater, Barry -- Gompers, Samuel -- Gore, Al -- Graham, Billy -- Grant, Ulysses S. -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hancock, John -- Harlan I, John Marshall -- Henry, Patrick -- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hoover, J. Edgar -- Houston, Sam -- Houston, Charles Hamilton -- Inouye, Daniel -- Jackson, Robert -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Jesse -- Jay, John -- Finkelman, Paul, editor.Milestone documents of American leaders : Exploring973 S438mL the primary#2 2009 sources ofCONTENTS: notable Americans. v. 1. 1763-1823 -- Editorial and production staff --- Publisher's note -- Advisers and contributors -- Reader's guide -- Introduction -- Teaching with primary source documents -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Adams, Sam -- Adams, Abigail -- Addams, Jane -- Anthony, Susan B. -- Baker, Ella -- Baruch, Bernard -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Black, Hugo -- Blackmun, Harry -- Brandeis, Louis -- Brennan, William -- Bryan, William Jennings -- Buchanan, James -- Burger, Warren -- Burr, Aaron -- Bush, George W. -- Byrd, Robert -- Calhoun, John C. -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Chavez, Cesar -- Chisholm, Shirley -- Clay, Henry -- Cleveland, Grover -- Clinton, Bill -- Davis, Jefferson -- Debs, Eugene V. -- Dircksen, Everett -- Douglas, William O. -- Douglas, Stephen -- Douglass, Frederick -- v. 2. Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Dulles, Allen -- Dulles, John Foster -- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- Field, Stephen J. -- Frankfurter, Felix -- Franklin, Ben -- Fuller, Margaret -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Gerry, Elbridge -- Ginsberg, Ruth Bader -- Goldman, Emma -- Goldwater, Barry -- Gompers, Samuel -- Gore, Al -- Graham, Billy -- Grant, Ulysses S. -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hancock, John -- Harlan I, John Marshall -- Henry, Patrick -- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hoover, J. Edgar -- Houston, Sam -- Houston, Charles Hamilton -- Inouye, Daniel -- Jackson, Robert -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Jesse -- Jay, John -- Finkelman, Paul, editor.Milestone documents of American leaders : Exploring973 S438mL the primary#3 2009 sources ofCONTENTS: notable Americans. v. 1. 1763-1823 -- Editorial and production staff --- Publisher's note -- Advisers and contributors -- Reader's guide -- Introduction -- Teaching with primary source documents -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Adams, Sam -- Adams, Abigail -- Addams, Jane -- Anthony, Susan B. -- Baker, Ella -- Baruch, Bernard -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Black, Hugo -- Blackmun, Harry -- Brandeis, Louis -- Brennan, William -- Bryan, William Jennings -- Buchanan, James -- Burger, Warren -- Burr, Aaron -- Bush, George W. -- Byrd, Robert -- Calhoun, John C. -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Chavez, Cesar -- Chisholm, Shirley -- Clay, Henry -- Cleveland, Grover -- Clinton, Bill -- Davis, Jefferson -- Debs, Eugene V. -- Dircksen, Everett -- Douglas, William O. -- Douglas, Stephen -- Douglass, Frederick -- v. 2. Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Dulles, Allen -- Dulles, John Foster -- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- Field, Stephen J. -- Frankfurter, Felix -- Franklin, Ben -- Fuller, Margaret -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Gerry, Elbridge -- Ginsberg, Ruth Bader -- Goldman, Emma -- Goldwater, Barry -- Gompers, Samuel -- Gore, Al -- Graham, Billy -- Grant, Ulysses S. -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hancock, John -- Harlan I, John Marshall -- Henry, Patrick -- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hoover, J. Edgar -- Houston, Sam -- Houston, Charles Hamilton -- Inouye, Daniel -- Jackson, Robert -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Jesse -- Jay, John -- Finkelman, Paul, editor.Milestone documents of American leaders : Exploring973 S438mL the primary#4 2009 sources ofCONTENTS: notable Americans. v. 1. 1763-1823 -- Editorial and production staff --- Publisher's note -- Advisers and contributors -- Reader's guide -- Introduction -- Teaching with primary source documents -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Adams, Sam -- Adams, Abigail -- Addams, Jane -- Anthony, Susan B. -- Baker, Ella -- Baruch, Bernard -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Black, Hugo -- Blackmun, Harry -- Brandeis, Louis -- Brennan, William -- Bryan, William Jennings -- Buchanan, James -- Burger, Warren -- Burr, Aaron -- Bush, George W. -- Byrd, Robert -- Calhoun, John C. -- Chase, Salmon P. -- Chavez, Cesar -- Chisholm, Shirley -- Clay, Henry -- Cleveland, Grover -- Clinton, Bill -- Davis, Jefferson -- Debs, Eugene V. -- Dircksen, Everett -- Douglas, William O. -- Douglas, Stephen -- Douglass, Frederick -- v. 2. Du Bois, W.E.B. -- Dulles, Allen -- Dulles, John Foster -- Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- Field, Stephen J. -- Frankfurter, Felix -- Franklin, Ben -- Fuller, Margaret -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Gerry, Elbridge -- Ginsberg, Ruth Bader -- Goldman, Emma -- Goldwater, Barry -- Gompers, Samuel -- Gore, Al -- Graham, Billy -- Grant, Ulysses S. -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hancock, John -- Harlan I, John Marshall -- Henry, Patrick -- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell -- Hoover, Herbert -- Hoover, J. Edgar -- Houston, Sam -- Houston, Charles Hamilton -- Inouye, Daniel -- Jackson, Robert -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jackson, Jesse -- Jay, John -- Foner, Eric Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution973.8 F673r 2016 This book chronicles the way in which Americans--black and white--responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society, the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations, and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This book remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period--an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today. Foner, Eric A short history of reconstruction 973.8 F673s 2016 In this updated edition of the abridged Reconstruction, Eric Foner redefines how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans--black and white--responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the quest of emancipated slaves searching for economic autonomy and equal citizenship, and describes the remodeling of Southern society, the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations, and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. 813.2 F692 Johnny Tremain, winner of the 1944 Newbery Medal, is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was seventy years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War. Fourteen-year-old Johnny Tremain, an apprentice silversmith with a bright future ahead of him, injures his hand in a tragic accident, forcing him to look for other work. In his new job as a horse-boy, riding for the patriotic newspaper, The Boston Observer, and as a messenger for the Sons of Liberty, he encounters John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Dr. Joseph Warren. Soon Johnny is involved in the pivotal events shaping the American Revolution from the Boston Tea Party to the first shots fired at Lexington. Powerful illustrations by American artist Michael McCurdy bring to life Esther Forbes's quintessential novel of the American Revolution. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory.The encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary973.303 War: F872ea political, V.1 2012social, andStandard military historyreference volume for investigating 1 A-D. how the United States was created by force of arms and how the American Revolution provided the wellspring for the nation's subsequent development. With over 1,000 entries and essays, a separate documents volyume, and contributions from an extraordinary group of international experts, this series supplants all other works of its kind as it captures with unprecedented balance and richness the birth of a nation. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory.The encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary973.303 War: F872ea political, V.2 2012social, andStandard military historyreference volume for investigating 2 E-L. how the United States was created by force of arms and how the American Revolution provided the wellspring for the nation's subsequent development. With over 1,000 entries and essays, a separate documents volyume, and contributions from an extraordinary group of international experts, this series supplants all other works of its kind as it captures with unprecedented balance and richness the birth of a nation. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory.The encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary973.303 War: F872ea political, V.3 2012social, andStandard military historyreference volume for investigating 3 M-R. how the United States was created by force of arms and how the American Revolution provided the wellspring for the nation's subsequent development. With over 1,000 entries and essays, a separate documents volyume, and contributions from an extraordinary group of international experts, this series supplants all other works of its kind as it captures with unprecedented balance and richness the birth of a nation. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory.The encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary973.303 War: F872ea political, V.4 2012social, andStandard military historyreference volume for investigating 4 S-Z. how the United States was created by force of arms and how the American Revolution provided the wellspring for the nation's subsequent development. With over 1,000 entries and essays, a separate documents volyume, and contributions from an extraordinary group of international experts, this series supplants all other works of its kind as it captures with unprecedented balance and richness the birth of a nation. Fremont-Barnes, Gregory.The encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary973.303 War: F872ea political, V.5 2012social, andStandard military historyreference volume for investigating 5 documents. how the United States was created by force of arms and how the American Revolution provided the wellspring for the nation's subsequent development. With over 1,000 entries and essays, a separate documents volyume, and contributions from an extraordinary group of international experts, this series supplants all other works of its kind as it captures with unprecedented balance and richness the birth of a nation. Gains, Ernest J. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 813.4 G142 The life story of a black lady born in slavery on a Louisisana plantation who is freed at the end of the Civil war and lives for one hundred more years to see the second emancipation. The story is told in her voice as she might have told it to a young historian who taped it. Galabraith, John Kenneth.Great Crash 1929. 973.91 G148g 2006 Gardner, Alexander Gardner's photgraphicd sketch book of the CivilPIC War G226g 2012 Gardner's photographs are among the greatest war pictures ever taken and are also among the most prized records of American history. With 100 photographs, this work is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition published in 1866. Gaustad, Edwin Scott.The religious history of America : the heart of 200.973the American G274r story 2005 from colonial times to today. Geithner, Timothy F. Stress test : reflections on financial crises 338.542 G312s 2014 From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. Gingrich, Newt Grant comes east 813.54 G492gr 2013 Continues the story of a Confederat victory, examining the great "what-if" of American history. Could Lee have won the Battle of Gettysburg? A Confederate victory, however, would not necessarily mean that the Southern cause has gained its final triumph and a lasting peace. It is from this departure point that the story continues in Grant Comes East, as General Robert E. Lee's troops march on Washing D.C., and launch an assault against one of the largest fortifications in the world. Gingrich, Newt To try men's souls 813.54 G492tt 2013 It is the night before the crossing of the Deleware, one fot he most iconic events in American history, and General Washing is full of doubt. The harsh winter and repeated defeats have dimmed his army's spirit. The Revolution has come down to one desperate salvo as the freezing, hungry rebels slip across the river. Gordon, Edward E. Literacy in America: historic journey and contempor302.2 aryG662L solutions. 2012 Comprehensive history of how the American people achieved varying degrees of literacy from early colonial times to the modern era. Gray, Edward G. Colonial America: a history in documents. 973.2 G778c Greenberg, Martin H.Slavery and the Civil War: the demise of slavery973.7 G789p #1 Greenberg, Martin H.Slavery and the Civil War: the preservation of libe973.7rty G798p #2 Gregory, Ross, editor.Modern America 1914 to 1945. 973 F142a #5 2009 Portrays American history from the Progressive Era through World War 1, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and teh New Deal and concludes with World War 2. Concisely detaisl people's everyday lives during this period, from the foods they ate to how much money they earned and spent to the types of jobs they performed. Provides statistical tables, charts, maps, photographs, and illustrations. Griffith, Samuel B., II.The war for American independence. 973.3 G853t 2006 The war for American independence: from 1760 to the surrender at Yorktown in 1781. Gup, Ted A secret gift: how one man's kindness--and a 92trove G977s of letters--revealed 2013 theShortly hidden beforehistory Christmas of the Grea 1933t Depression in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad offered cash gifts to 75 families in distress. Sam Stone was inspired to place this ad and help his fellow Cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest Christmas most of them would ever endure. Ted Gup first set out to unveil the lives behind the 75 families' letters and has recreated the impact that Stone's gift had on each family. In the process, Gup also unearthed details about Sam's life that help explain why he felt such a strong affinity to strangers in need. Halberstadt, Hans The American fire engine PIC H157a 2015 The American Fire Engine is a stunning tribute to firefighters and to the fire apparatus of the last two hundred years, with special emphasis on the classic automotive engines, trucks, and ladder rigs of the twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties. All the legendary names of yesterday and today, Ahrens-Fox, American LaFrance, Emergency One, Mack, Pirsch, Seagrace, Van Pelt, speed off the pages, sirens screaming in more than 150 stunning color photographs. Also included are vintage advertisements and dozens of original black-and-white photgraphs. The text is a fascinating history of fire apparatus and firefighting, describing the evolution from bucket brigades and hand-pumpers manned by rowdy "vollies" to horse-drawn dteam pumpers operated by the first professional firefighters, and from the first automotive powered rigs to the powerful, sophisticated trucks, engines, and rescue rigs of today. Woven together for the first time are histories of the great fire-apparatus manufacturers, highlights from historical sources, and hours of interviews with present and former firefighters and fire-apparatus collectors, mustering the legend and lore of hundreds of years of firefighting. This is a truly unique book that will delight firefighters, fire buffs, fire-apparatus collectors and anyone who remembers the surge of adrenaline we all felt as kids when a big, red fire engine roared down the street. Hale, Edward EverettThe man without a country. 813.4 H161 The Man Without a Country is the story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend the rest of his days at sea without so much as a word of news about the United States. Though the story is set in the early 19th century, it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War and was meant to promote the Union cause. Hanes, Sharon M. Great Depression and New Deal : Primary Sources.973 Ux96g 2007 Hawke, David Freeman.Everyday life in early America. 973.2 H392 Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust. 813.52 H587o 2006 In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Hill, Lawrence. Someone knows my name. 813.6 H646s 2012 Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. in Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of the blacks who have served the King and earned their freedom in Nova Scotia. But the harship and prejudice of the new colony prompt her to follow her heart back to Africa, then on to London ,where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery and its toll on her life and a whole people. Hillstrom, Kevin. The Industrial Revolution. 330.973 H655i 2010 Examines the eras, events and movements that have shaped U.S. history. Compelling narratives offer a wealth of factual information and also provide readers with insight into the significance of the past and its many legacies. Fully cited quotations from historical figures, eyewitnesses, letters, speeches, and writings bring vibrancy and authority to the text. Sidebars, time lines, indexes, and annotated bibliographies appear in all volumes. Hillstrom, Kevin. McCarthyism and the Communist threat. 973.918 H655m 2012 Provides an absorbing overview of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist "witch hunts" of the 1950s. Also explores the ways in which the McCarthy era shaped the trajectory of American politics and culture for decades to come. Hogan, Margaret A. My dearest friend: letters of Abigail and John Adam973.4 s.H714m 2008 Invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partership of two strong individuals, in their own words. Howes, Kelly King. Roaring twenties : Almanac and Primary Sources.973 Ux96r 2007 Hull, William F. Historic photos of Chattanooga in the 50's, 60's,976.8 and H913h 70's 2013 Leads a tour past many Chattanooga landmarks from recent times, reminiscing with Chattnoogans who can remember and informing those new to the city who may not. Nearly 200 images reproduced in vivid black-and-white, with captions and introductions, show the Tivoli theatre, Rock City, Dupont, Chickamauga Lake, Lovell Field, the Hunter Museum, Coca-Cola Bottling, Krystal, Erlanger Hospital, the Chattanooga Lookouts, radio legend Luther Masingill--still broadcasting today after 70 years--and, of course, the Chattanooga Choo choo. Hunt, Irene. No promises in the wind. PB H941n C.2 Jackson, Andrew Grant1965: The most revolutionary year in music 781.641 J12ni 2015 During twelve unforgettable months in the middle of the turbulent Sixties, America saw the rise of innovative new sounds that would change popular music as we knew it. In this book, the author chronicles a groundbreaking year of creativity fueled by rivalries between musicians and continents, as well as sweeping social changes and technological breakthroughs. Jamieosn, Dave Mint condition: how baseball cards became an796.357 Americ J32mian obsession 2013 A complete history of baseball cards, from their beginning just after the Civil War, all the way to the present day. Jenkins, Wilbert L. Climbing up to glory: a short history of African973.7 Americans J52cl 2016 during the Civil WarThe andCivil reconstruction War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its outcome, it was an especially critical juncture. The Union defeat of the Confederacy brought African Americans a simultaneous victory over their captors, freeing them from slavery and domination and establishing them as masters of their own fate. But African Americans were far from passive victims of the war. Black soldiers fought on both sides of the conflict_Union and Confederate. In Climbing Up to Glory: A Short History of African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Wilbert L. Jenkins explores this defining period in a story that documents the journey of average African Americans as they struggled to reinvent their lives following the abolition of slavery. In this highly readable book, Jenkins examines the unflagging determination and inner strength of African Americans as they sought to construct a solid economic base for themselves and their families by establishing their own businesses and banks and strove to own their own land. He portrays the racial violence and other obstacles blacks endured as they pooled meager resources to institute and maintain their own schools and attempted to participate in the political process. The family unit was also impacted by these profound societal changes. During this tumultuous time, African Americans struggled to rebuild families torn apart by slavery and to legalize family relationships such as slave marriages that were previously deemed unlawful. Compelling and informative, Climbing Up to Glory is an unforgettable tribute to a glowing period in African-American history sure to enrich and inspire American and African-American history enthusiasts. Kahn, Roger. The boys of summer: the classic narrative of growin796.357g up Ka12b within 2008 shouting distanceBy and ofabout Ebbets a sportswriter Field, cove ringwho the grew Jackie up near Robinson Ebbets Dodgers, Field, and and who what's had happenthe gooded fortune to everybody in the 1950ssince. to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. Kallen, Stuart The history of American pop 781.640 K14ap 2012 Musical tales of American life, rockin' around the clock, the sixties sound explosion, video stars and rock rebels, hip hop and teen pop. Kallen, Stuart A. The history of rock and roll 781.660 K14rr 2012 Sixties rock and roll, folk, and soul, rock gets experienced, the psychotic world of punk, from pop rock to the heaviest metal, and alternative rock. Kallen, Stuart, editor.The roaring twenties. 973.91 Ka14r 2004 Kaplan, Justin Mr. Clemens and Mark twain: a biography 92 T969k With brilliant immediacy, Mr Clemens & Mark Twain brings to life a towering literary figure whose dual personae symbolized the emerging American conflict between down-to-earth morality & freewheeling ambition. As Mark Twain, he was the Mississippi riverboat pilot, the satirist with a fiery hatred of pretension, & the author of such classics as Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn. As Mr Clemens, he was the star who married an heiress, built a palatial estate, threw away fortunes on harebrained financial schemes & lived the extravagent life that Twain despised. Set against the richly drawn background of the post-Civil War period that Twain dubbed the "Gilded Age," Mr. Clemens & Mark Twain is sure to entertain & enlighten both general readers & scholars alike. Katz, Harry L. Civil War sketch book: drawings from the battlefronPIC K19cit 2012 Illustrators such as Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast created for the American public some of the most important and lasting images of the Civil War. The 250 illustrations collected here span different battlefields and represent priceless artifacts from our nation's greatest conflict. Author t Title t Call Summary, etc. note Katz, William Loren. The great society to the Reagan era, 1964-1990.973 Ka19 v.7 Kaye, Darwood Finding Waldo: from little rascal to Seventh-day266 Ad S642fventist 2014 pastor Lights. Camera. Actions! Few words thrilled child star Darwood Kaye more than these. Born Darwood Kenneth Smith at the start of the Great Depression, Darwood's parents recognized his talent and moved the family to Hollywood. By age 13, he had already acted alongside movie greats Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Jackie Cooper, and Robert Blake. But Darwood is best known for his role as Waldo, the snooty rich kid, in Our Gand. He spent four years in the spotlight, enjoying antics of Alfalfa, Spanky, Darla, and the rest of the Gang. These movies later became the after-school television series The Little Rascals. With a promising career ahead of him, Darwood watched as two roads emerged: one led to the spotlight on center stage for a season, the other to the longest running feature of all time--a child of God for eternity. Which would he choose? Keller, Emily. Frances Perkins: first woman cabinet member.92 P448k 2011 Recreates the Great Depression and details Perkin's efforts as secretary of labor to bring hope and change during a critical time in American life. Kelly, C. Brian. Best little stories from the American Revolution.973.3 With K29 Select founding mothers Kennedy, Frances H. The American Revolution : a historical guidebook973.3 K35am 2014 "Every year, more than a million people visit Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord, Massachusetts, where the shot heard 'round the world was fired and the War of Independence began--and nearly three and a half million visit Yorktown National Battlefield, where it was won. In The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook, Frances H. Kennedy provides nearly 150 entries arranged in order of their chronological significance that allow readers not simply to experience these places from our past, but to understand what happened there. The list is encyclopedic: battlefields, encampments, forts, museums, meeting houses, gathering places, and more, from Faneuil Hall in Boston to Cowpens in South Carolina. To bring each site to life, Kennedy integrates primary sources, extracts from the works of prize-winning historians, and supporting material such as maps and guides to further reading. Contemporary letters and debates immerse readers in history, allowing them to relive dramatic scenes, while America's foremost historians--including David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, Mary Beth Norton, David Hackett Fischer, Gordon Wood, and Pauline Maier--explain the significance of key developments and offer context. Based upon the best writing of the best historical minds of the last half-century, this book focuses brings the Revolutionary War to life"-- Kilmeade, Brian George Washington's secret six : the spy ring that973.4 save K48ge the 2014American RevolutionDrawing on extensive research, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger have painted compelling portraits of Geroge washington's secret six: Robert Townsend, the researved Quaker merchant and reporter who headed the Culper Ring, keeping his identity secret even from Washington; Austin Roe, the tavern keeper who risked his employment and his life in order to protect the mission; Caleb Brewster, the brash young longshoreman who loved baiting British and agreed to ferry messages between Connecticut and New York....and more. Kneib, Martha. Women soldiers, spies, and patriots of the American973.3 Kn68w Revolution. 2004 Kuypers, Jim A. Partisan journalism : a history of media bias in302.230 the United K95pa States 2014 Join Jim A Kuypers on a journey through American journalistic history, focusing on the warring notions of objectivity and partisanship and learn how the American journalistic tradition grew from partisan roots and, with only a brief period of objectivity in between, has returned to those roots today. Lange, Dorothea. American exodus : Record of human erosion 973.91 L274a 2006 Langguth, A. J., Patriots : the men who started the American Revolut973.3 L278ion Larkin, Jack The reshaping of everyday life: 1790-1840 973.4 L324r 2016 The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American life. However, most Americans were enmeshed in the myriad ordinary concerns of their lives, and although deeply affected by the great events of the time, their concern with them was intermittent. Jack Larkin describes the often gritty texture of life as these Americans experienced it, weaving the disparate threads of everyday life into the rich, complicated tapestry of American history during this transitional period. Leamer, Laurence Make-believe: the story of Nancy and Ronald 92Reagan R287L A biography of Ronald Reagan which details his two marriages, his children, and his public roles, including the Presidency. Lehr, Dick Black mass: the Irish mob, the FBI, and a devil's364.1 deal L522b 2015 John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the tought streets of South Boston. Decades later, in the mid-1970's, they met again. BY then, Connolly was a major figure in the Boston office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bulger had become godfather of the local Irish-American mob. What happened next, a dirty deal to bring down the Italian-American mafia in exchange for protection for bulger, would spiral out of control, leading to murders, Bulger's takeover of the neighborhood drug trade, racketeering indictments, and, ultimately, the biggest informant scandal in the history of the FBI. In this new edition of the New York Times and Boston Globe bestseller, Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill, the two former Boston Globe reporters who were on the case from the beginning, take us deeper undercover, exposing one of the worst scandals in FBI history and the black hearts of two old friends who preferred the darkness of permanent midnight. Littlefield, Daniel C. Revolutionary citizens: African Americans 1776-1804973 P173. v.3 Loker, Aleck. Fearless captain: the adventures of John Smith.92 S652l 2007 Lunday, Elizabeth The modern art invasion; Picasso, Duchamp, and700.9 the L962m 1913 Armory2015 show thatWinter scandalized 1913: New America York City was at the cus of an artisitic revolution. In an era when realism dominated the art scene, the International Exhibition of Modern Art--known as the Armory Show--astonished the country by introducing modern art to America. This book brings the Armory Show to life through the people who were there--the ragtag group of outsider artists who put on the show, the observers who atteneded, and the critics who were both baffled and indignant about the art on display. It places the show in the larger context of American culture just before World War I and offers a fast-paced tour of life in America and Europe, peering into Gertrude Stein's PAris salon, sitting in at the parties of New York socialites, and elbowing through the crowds at the Armory itself. Mapes, Jeff. Pedaling revolution: how cyclists are changing796.6 Amer M297pican cities. 2010 A grassroots movement is carving out a niche for bicycles on citystreets. In Pedaling Revolution , Jeff Mapes, a longtimepolitical reporter and bike commuter, explores the growth of bicycleadvocacy and issues such as the environmental, safety, and healthaspects of biking for short trips. Essential reading for anyone whorides their bike to work or on errands, works in transportation orurban planning, or just wonders why they are seeing so many morebicyclists on the road. Matthiessen, Peter. Sal si puedes (Escape if you can) : Cesar Chavez92 an C512md the new2005 American revolution. Mayer, Jane. Landslide : the unmaking of the President, 1984-198973.9278 M468 McCullough, David G.1776. 973.3 M133s 2005 Tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. McDonnell, Michael MastersA. of empire: great lakes Indians and the977.401 making M478m of America 2016 In this book, historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the vital role played by the native peoples of the Great Lakes in the history of North America. Though less well known than the Iroquois or Sioux, the Anishinaabeg, who lived across Lakes Michigan and Huron, were equally influential. This book charts the story of one group, the Odawa, who settled at the straits between those two lakes, a hub for trade and diplomacy throughout the vast country west of Montreal known as the pays d'en haut. Through vivid depictions--all from a native perspective--of early skirmishes, the French and Indian War, and the American Revolution, Masters of Empire overturns our assumptions about colonial America. By calling attention to the Great Lakes as a crucible of culture and conflict, McDonnell reimagines the landscape of American history. McElvaine, Robert S.The Depression and the New Deal: a history in973 docum P134ments. 1999 McGaugh, Scott Surgeon in blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil973.7 War doctorM478s who2016 pioneered battlefieldWhen Jonathan care Letterman was appointed the chief medical officer of the Army of the Potomac, he revolutionized combat medicine over the course of four major, bloody battles by imposing medical professionalism on the chaos of battle. Letterman made survival possible by creating the first organized ambulance corps, a more effective field hospital system, and hygiene and diet standards, all while confronting conditions of squalor, poor nutrition, and rampant disease that left 20 percent of the men unfit to fight. With stirring accounts of battles and the struggle to invent and supply adequate care during impossible conditions, Surgeon in Blue recounts Letterman's life from his small-town Pennsylvania beginnings to his trailblazing wartime years and his subsequent career as a wildcatter and the medical examiner of San Francisco. McPherson, James M.Drawn with the sword: reflections on the American973.7 CM172ivil War. Meltzer, Milton Tom Paine: voice of revolution. 92 P147m Miller, Arthur The crucible [sound recording] CD 812.5 C955 2014 As a wave of anti-communist investigations swept across American society during the 1950s, Miller exposed the horror of such witch-hunts by retelling the story of the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692. Miller, Calvin Craig. Backlash: race riots in the Jim Crow era. 305.800 M647b 2011 In the decades following the end of the Civil War in 1865, African Americans sought to make their way forward as a free people. In many cities, they found earlu success. But the rage of the Jim Crow era often followed in their footsteps. They faced antebelum racist stereotypes in the Southm an invisible color line in the North, and mob violence in both. Miller, Mary Ellen The art of Mesoamerica: from Olmec to Aztec709.72 M649a 2014 This expanded and full revised fifth edition of Mary Ellen Miller's classic book features a completely new chapter on Teotihuacan discussing the rulership and ethnicity of that powerful yet enigmatic city. Exciting new discoveries and ongoing research help clarify the links between the Olmecs and the Maya, while newly revealed paintings at Calakmul show Maya artists to have been both masters of convention and ready innovators. Vital new finds at the heart of the Aztec capital are still astounding students of Mexico, even as works from the Early Colonial period continue to reveal the complexity of the first decades under Spanish rule. Miller, William. Illustrated history of the civil war : Images of an973.7 American M652i tragedy.2006 Monteith, Sharon American culture in the 1960s 306.097 M772a 2016 This book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the twentieth century's most culturally vibrant decades. It provides a vivid account of cultural forms--music and performances, film and television; fiction and poetry; art and photography--and influential figures of the 1960s: from Norman Mailer to Susan Sontag; Tom Lehrer to Muhammad Ali; and Bob Dylan to Rachel Carson. The volume as a whole looks to the West and most particularly to the South in the making of the Sixties as myth and as history. Murray, Jennifer M. On a great battlefield: the making, management,974.8 and M981o memory 2017 of GettysburgOf Nationalthe more Military than seventy Park sites associated with the Civil War era that the National Park Service manages, none hold more national appeal and recognition than Gettysburg National Military Park. Wlcoming more than one million visitors annually from across the nation and around the world, the National Park Service at Gettysburg holds the enormous responsibility of preserving the war's "hallowed ground" and educating the public, not only on the battle, but also about the Civil War as the nation's defining moment. Although historians and enthusiasts continually add to the shelves of Gettysburg scholarship, they have paid only minimal attention to the battlefield itself and the process of preesrving, interpreting, and remembering the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. In "On a Great Battlefield," Jennifer M. Murray provides a critical perspective to Gettysburg historiography by offering an in-depth exploration of the national military park and how the Gettysburg battlefield has evolved since the National Park Service acquired the site in August 1933. As Murray reveals, the history of the Gettysburg battlefield underscores the ocmplexity of preserving and interpreting a historic landscape. After a short overview of early efforts to preserve the battlefield by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association (1864-1895) and the United States War Department (1895-1933), Murray chronicles the administration of the National Park Service and the multitude of external factors--including the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the Civil War Centennial, and recent sesquicentennial celebrations--that influenced operations and molded Americans' understanding of the battle and its history. Haphazard landscape practices, promotion of tourism, encouragement of recreational pursuits, ill-defined policies of preerving cultural resources, and the inevitable turnover of administrators guided by very different preservation values regularly influenced the direction of the park and the presentation of the Civil War's popular memory. By highlighting the complicated nexus between prservation, tourism, popular culture, interpretation, and memory, On A Great Battlefield provides a unique perspective on the Mecca of Civil War landscapes. Nimura, Janice P. Daughters of the samurai: a journey from East920.72 to We stN713d and back 2015 In 1891, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors--Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Truda--grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities, their travels and traditional clothing exclaimed over by newpapers across the newspapers across the nation. As they learned English and Western customs, their American friends grew to love them for their high spirits and intellectual brilliance. The passionate relationships they formed reveal an intimate world of cross-cultural fascination and connection. Ten years later, they returned to Japan--a land grown foreign to them--determined to revolutionize women's education. Based on in-depth archival research in Japan and in the United States, including decades of letters from between the three women and their American host families, this book is beautifully, cinematically written, a fascinating lens through which to view an extraordinary historical moment. Nishi, Dennis, editor.The Great Depression. 338.5 N724 2002 Noll, Mark A. A history of Christianity in the United States and277.3 Canada. N793h 2010 Author Mark Noll presents the unfolding drama of American Christianity with accuracy and skill, from the first European settlements to ecumenism in the late 20th Century. This work has become a standard in the field of North American religious history. Though dealing with all denominations, it is centered on the rise and decline of Protestant dominance in the United States. Starting from colonial pluralism, Noll shows how Christianity was Americanized by the ``great awakening,'' the Revolution, and other influences. Northup, Solomon Twelve years a slave 92 N877t 2014 "A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today is recognized for its unusual insight and eloquence as one of the very few portraits of American slavery produced by someone as educated as Solomon Northup, or by someone with the dual perspective of having been both a free man and a slave"-- Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's daughters: the Revolutionary experience301.41 of AmericanN886 women, 1750-1800. Oliver, Sandra L. Food in colonial and federal America. 641.5973 O48f 2006 O'Reilly, Bill Killing Reagan: the violent assault that changed92 aR281k presidency 2015 Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within inches of his heart. His recovery was nothing short of remarkable--or so it seemed. But Reagan was grievously injured, forcing him to encounter a challenge that few men ever face. Could he silently overcome his traumatic experience while at the same time carrying out his duties of the most powerful man in the world? This book reaches back to the golden days of Hollywood, where Reagan found both fame and heartbreak, up through the years in the California governnor's mansion, and finally to the White House, where he presided over boom years and the fall of the Iron Curtain. But it was John Hinckley Jr.'s attack on him that precipitated President Reagan's most heroic actions. Ouchley, Kelby American alligator: ancient predator in the modern597.98 world O93am 2015 Having survived since the Mesozoic era, alligators teetered on the brink of extinction in the 1960s. Their recovery in the 1970's and 1980s was largely due to legislative intervention, and today populations are closely monitored throughout their range. This book is the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of this resilient relic, a creature with a brain weighing less than half an ounce that has successfully adapted to a changing Earth for more than 200 million years. Oxoby, Marc The 1990s 973.929 O98ni 2016 The last decade of the millennium was, in many ways, the most diverse and fascinating in the history of American culture. Alternative subcultures gained unprecedented exposure, manifest in such phenomena as grunge music, "gansta" rap, hip-hop fashion, raves, extremem sports, and the art of Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano. Science fiction came to the mainstream. bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam spread the Seattle Rock scene across America. And even coffeehouse culture went mainstream with the proliferation of the Starbucks chain. Parr, Jerry The secret service : the true story of the man who363.28 saved P258i President 2014 Reagan'sMeet life Jerry Parr. In 1981, he was the agent standing next to Ronald Reagan when John Hinckley Jr. stepped out of the crowd, intent on killing the president. This is his story. Paulsen, Gary Woods runner 813.52 P332w 2015 Thirteen-year-old Samuel lives with his parents on the edge of the wilderness in the British colony of Pennsylvania, a long way from the civilization of any town. Samuel knows how to hunt and how to survive in the untamed forest that surrounds his home on the frontier, where it can take days for news to arrive. There are rumors that American patriots have begun a bloody war against the English; to Samuel, the fighting in the cities and towns to the east seems far away. Then the war comes to him. In a savage attack by British soldiers and Iroquois, Samuel's parents are taken prisoner. Samuel follows their trail, drawing on his forest skills, determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and the unbelievable cruelty, tragedy, and horror of the war. But he also discovers unexpected allies, men and women working secretly on behalf of the patriots. And he learns that he must plunge deep into enemy territory to find his parents. He must follow them all the way to the British headquarters in New York City. Pendergast, Tom. The sixties in America: primary sources. 973 Ux96si 2007 Purvis, Thomas L., editor.Colonial America to 1763. 973 F142a #1 2009 Portrays American history before the United States was established. Details their everyday lives, from the foods they ate to the places where they worshiped to the types of jobs they performed. Provides statistical tables, charts, maps, photographs, and illustrations. Purvis, Thomas L., editor.Revolutionary America 1763 to 1800. 973 F142a #2 2009 Covers four momentous decades in American history. Reveals the diverse aspects of everyday life in early America. Provides statistical tables, charts, maps, photographs, and illustrations. Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: militant islam, oil and fundamentalism958.1 in central R224t Asia. 2010 Rahshid, a journalist who covered the Afghan civil war and the emergence of the Taliban in 1994, examines the Taliban's history, relationship to Islam, and their new global role in the oil trade, especially the building of pipelines. He verifies the usual American media presentation of the Taliban when he states that they closed down all the girls' schools and forced women behind domestic doors, banned all entertainment (sports, games, music, tv, card games), forced men to grow beards, and continue to keep the personages and workings of government secretive. Reagan, Nancy. My turn: the memoirs of Nancy Reagan. 92 R2873 Reis, Ronald A. The Dust Bowl. 978 R375d 2012 Recounts the factors that led to the conditions within the Dust Bowl, how those affected coped, and what can be learned from the tragedy, considered by many to be America's worst prolonged environmental disaster. Reynolds, David The long shadow : the legacies of the Great War940.3 in theR462L twentieth 2014 century One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In the Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Reynolds seeks to broaden our vision by assessing the impacy of the Great WAr across the twentieth century. He shows how events in that turbulent century--particularly World War II, the Cold War, and the collapse of Communism--shaped and reshaped attitudes to 1914-18. Author t Title t Call Summary, etc. note Riedman, Sarah R. Benjamin Rush: Physician, patriot, founding father92 R952r A realistic and human portrait of the greatest American physician of the 18th century: the father of American psychiatry, and a co-signer of the Declaration of Independence. Riess, Steven A. Sports in America from colonial times to the twenty796.097-first R378s century V.1 2012volume 1 AA-F. survey of the history of sports from colonial times to the 21st century. Riess, Steven A. Sports in America from colonial times to the twenty796.097-first R378s century V.2 2012volume 2 AG-Q. survey of the history of sports from colonial times to the 21st century. Riess, Steven A. Sports in America from colonial times to the twenty796.097-first R378s century V.3 2012volume 3 AR-Z. survey of the history of sports from colonial times to the 21st century. Rinaldi, Ann. Cast two shadows: the American Revolution inPB the R578ca South. 2001 In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war. Rinaldi, Ann. The secret of Sarah Revere. PB R578s Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution. Rinaldi, Ann. The secret of Sarah Revere. PB R578s c.2 2011 The spunky daughter of the famed Paul Revere tells the story of her father's rides and the intelligence network of the Patriot community prior to the American Revolution. Ann Rinaldi's impeccable research and keen perception of adolescent angst create a look back in time that remains powerfully relevant today. Rirella, Joseph Tomorrow-land : the 1964-65 world's fair and 607the T596ttransformation 2014 of AmericaA vivid account of the 1964-65 World fair--a spectacle that embodied innovation, lunacy, hope, and fear of the sixties. Roberts, Kenneth. Rabble in arms. 813.52 R645r 2010 Beginning in 1776, the novel followw the fortunes of Peter and Nathaniel Merrill as they are drawn inexoprably into the bitter northen battles of the American Revolution. Robertson, James I. The untold Civil War: exploring the human sidePIC of R651u the war 2012 Features historical photos and paintings, political cartoons, color photos of relics, and color and b&w maps and timelines. The book concentrates on true stories of little-known people and events, such as ordinary soldiers and civilians, children of the war, women on the battlefield, and African Americans during the war. There is also material on firsts of the war (the first sewing machine, the first artificial arm), various duels and executions, and new technologies such as wire communication. Robertson, James I., RobertJr. E. Lee: Virginian soldier, American citizen.92 L479r 2012 Explores the life of one of the most revered- and misunderstood- Civil War generals. Robinson, Virgil EugeneThose adventurous years W R665 Jottings of a great-grandson of the pioneers of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, written purely for the entertainment of his parents and with no thought of its publication. Robson, David Colonial America 973.2 R667c 2012 The defining characteristics of the colonial America, theevents that led to the colonization of America, seeking religious freedom, quest for commerce, growth and war, the legacy of colonial America. Ryan, Michael C., editor.Living in colonial America. 92 C641c 2004 Each volume in the Exploring Culutral History series opens a unique window through which readers can gaze into a distant time and place and eavesdrop on life in a vanished culture. Sagert, Kelly Boyer The 1970s 306.097 S129n 2016 Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: the war years. 92 L736s w-v.1 Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: the war years. 92 L736s w-v.2 Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: the war years. 92 L736s w-v.3 Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: the war years. 92 L736s w-v.4 Selcer, Richard F., editor.Civil war America 1850 to 1875. 973 F142a #3 2009 Covers U.S. history of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a period during which familiar aspects of modern life such as the government bureaucracy, consumerism, mass culture, data profiling, and professionalism began to develop. Reveals the diverse aspects of everyday life in Civil War America. Provides statistical tables, charts, maps, photographs, and illustrations. Shaara, Jeff. The glorious cause. PB S524a #2 2010 The Gorious Cause is a tribute to amazing people who turned ideas into action and fought to declare themselves free. Shaara, Jeff. Rise to rebellion : a novel of the American Revolut813.4ion. S524r Shaara, Jeff. Rise to rebellion. PB S524a #1 2010 In Rise to Rebellion, acclaimed auther Jeff Shaara brilliantly brings to life the American revolution creating a superb saga of the men who helped forge the destiny of a nation- from idealistic attorney John Adams to audacious inventor and philosopher Ben Franklin; from Thomas Gage, the British general given the impossible task fo crushing colonial rebellion, to George Washington, the dashing Virginian who took command of a colonial army. Sheinkin, Steve Most dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the secret959.704 history S543m of the 2015Vietnam war In 1964, Daniel Ellsberg was one of the Pentagon insiders helping to plan a war in Vietnam. The mountainous Asian country had long been a clandestine front in America's Cold War with the Soviet Union. The U.S. Government would do anything to stop the spread of communism--with or without the consent of the American people. But as the fighting in Vietnam escalated, Ellsberg turned against the war. He had access to a top-secret government report known as the Pentagon Papers and knew it could blow the lid off of years of government lies. But did he have the right to expose decades of presidential secrets? And could one man, alone, face the wrath of the government? This is the story of the seven bloody years that transformed Daniel Ellsberg from a government insider into "the most dangerous man in America," and of the storm that would follow when the secrets of the Vietnam War were finally known. Sheinkin, Steve. The notorious Benedict Arnold: a true story of92 adve A752snture, 2012 heroism & treachery.On a cold bitter day in January 1741 Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infaous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country's greatest war heroes. Shirer, William L. (Lawrence)The nightmare years, 1930-1940: a memoir of92 a lifeS558 and the times Chronicles the years 1930 to 1940, discussing the emergence of Hitler in Europe, the workings of the Nazis, and World War II. Shlaes, Amity Coolidge 92 C774s 2015 Calvin Coolidge never rated high in polls, and history has remembered the decade in which he served as an extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Amity Shlaes provides a fresh look at the 1920's--triumphant years in which the nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus--and the little-known president behind them. Perhaps more than any other president, Coolidge understood that doing less could yield more, reducing the federal budget even as the economy grew, wages rose, taxes fell, and unemployment dropped. Shorto, Russell. The island at the center of the world: the epic 974.7story ofS559i Dutch 2015 Manhattan andIn thea landmark forgotten work colony of history, that shaped Russell America Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a forgotten society: the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan, which predated the thirteen "original" American colonies. For the past thirty years scholar Charles Gehring has been translating this trove, which was recently declared a national treasure. Now, Russell Shorto has made use of this vital material to construct a sweeping narrative of Manhattan's founding that gives a startling, fresh perspective on how America began. In an account that blends a novelist's grasp of storytelling with cutting-edge scholarship, The Island at the Center of the World strips Manhattan of its asphalt, bringing us back to a wilderness island, a hunting ground for Indians, populated by wolves and bears, that became a prize in the global power struggle between the English and the Dutch. Indeed, Russell Shorto shows that America's founding was not the work of English settlers alone but a result of the clashing of these two seventeenth century powers. In fact, it was Amsterdam, Europe's most liberal city, with an unusual policy of tolerance and a polyglot society dedicated to free trade, that became the model for the city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan. While the Puritans of New England were founding a society based on intolerance, on Manhattan the Dutch created a free-trade, upwardly-mobile melting pot that would help shape not only New York, but America. The story moves from the halls of power in London and The Hague to bloody naval encounters on the high seas. The characters in the saga-the men and women who played a part in Manhattan's founding, range from the philosopher Rene Descartes to James, the Duke of York, to prostitutes and smugglers. At the heart of the story is a bitter power struggle between two men: Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony, and a forgotten American hero named Adriaen van der Donck, a maverick, liberal-minded lawyer whose brilliant political gamesmanship, commitment to individual freedom, and exuberant love of his new country would have a lasting impact on the history of this nation. Sickels, Robert The 1940s 306 S565n 2016 The 1940s were like no other time in U.S. history. The nation went to war in both Europe and Asia; meanwhile, the American population shifted from being largely rural to predominantly urban. The "greatest generation" saw, and helped, American change forever. Robert Sickels captures the many ways in which the nation's popular culture grew and evolved. The 1940s saw the emergence of such phenomena as television, Levittown housing, comic-book superheroes, pre-packaged foods, Christian Dior's "New Look," the original swing music, and the first Beatniks. Silber, Nina. Daughters of the Union: northern women fight973.7 the CiS582dvil War. 2012 Casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unlike their Confederate counterparts, who were often caught in the midst of the conflict, most Northern women remained far from the dangers of battle. Nonetheless, they enlisted in the Union cause on their home ground, and the experience transformed their lives. Silver, Peter. Our savage neighbors: how Indian war transformed973.2 S587oearly America. 2008 Shows how it was only through the shared experience of fearing and hating Indians that these Europeans, once irreconcilable, were finally united. Sirota, David Back to the future: how the 1980s explain the 973.92world we S619b live in2016 now In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s--from the "Greed is good" ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the "Make my day" foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the "transcendence" of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today's mindless militarism and hypernarcisism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an '80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and "Just Do It" exhortations embraced a new religion--with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children's toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America's lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today with Barack Obama cast as the '60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton--esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik's Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present--and possible future. Skloot, Rebecca The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks 616 S628i 2014 Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of--From publisher description. Sorkin, Andrew Ross.Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Stree332.097t and S714tWashington 2010 fought Acclaimedto save the "New financial York syste Times"m- andreporter themselves. Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. Spirn, Anne Whiston.Daring to look. 331.763 S769d 2009 Exhibits never-before-published photos and captions from Lange's fieldwork in California, North Carolina, and the Pacific Northwest during 1939, presenting Lange's images of squatter camps, beleaguered farmers, and stark landscapes with her own captions - which range from simple explanations of settings to historical notes and biographical sketches - adding unexpected depth while unflinchingly turning her lens on the despair, degradation, and greed unleashed by the Great Depression. Steer, Deirdre Clancy.Colonial America. 391.009 S813ca 2010 Readers will learn how men and women dressed, fromt he earliest settlers to those who fought in the Revolutionary War, fromt he rich landowners to the poorest servants. Stills from popular movies and plays, along with informative sidebars assist in recreating colonial dress for students' projects. Chapers include: The First Settlers; Costume in the Colonies; Grwoth; Made in America; Military Uniforms; Textiles. Steinbeck, John The grapes of wrath 813.52 S819 c.2 First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. Steinbeck, John. Grapes of wrath. 813.52 S819g c.3 2006 Strong, Emory. Seeking western waters: the Lewis and Clark trail917.804 from S923sthe Rockies 2011 to the Pacific.From 1804-1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark conducted one of the best managed, most successful explorations in history. With President Thomas Jefferson's instructions to examine the recently bought Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery set out on a peaceful expedition that was unparalleled in the information it brought back to the rest of the United States. Emory Strong and Ruth Beacon Strong have used excerpts from the Reuben Thwaites edition of the Lewis and Clark journals that focus on the native population the Corps of Discovery came in contact with on their journey from the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. Following their journey from the Continental Divide to the Pacific Ocean, the Strongs supplied this book with over 200 photographs, many of them sites that have been since consumed by geological, riverine or human forces. Sullivan, Christine, editor.The Great Depression. 973.916 S949g 2012 A history of the Great Depression, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources. Summers, Mark WahlgrenThe ordeal of the reunion: a new history of reconst973.8ruction S955o 2016 For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In this book, Mark Wahlgren Summers foes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction's need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framwork of federalism and republican democracy. Assessing the era nationally, Summers emphasizes the variety of conservative strains that confined the scope of change, highlights the war's impact and its aftermath, and brings the West and foreign policy into an integrated narrative. In sum, this book offers a fresh explanation for Reconstruction's demise and a case for its essential successes as well as its great failures. Indeed, this book demonstrates the extent to which the victors' aims in 1865 were met--and at what cost. Summers depicts not just a heroic, tragic moment with equal rights advanced and then betrayed, but a time of achievement and consolidation, in which nationhood and emancipation were placed beyond repeal and the groundwork was laid for a stronger, if not better, America to come. Sussman, Barry The great cover-up: Nixon and the scandal of 973.924Watergate S964g 2012 Account of the Watergate scandal and the fall of Richard Nixon. Swanson, James L. Bloody times: the funeral of Abraham Lincoln 973.709and the S972bmanhunt 2012 for JeffersonOn Davis. the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time--the Yankees are coming, it warned. That night Davis fled Richmond, setting off an intense manhunt for the Confederate president. Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln’s murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. His final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry him home to Springfield, Illinois. It was the most magnificent funeral pageant in American history. Tawa, Nicholas E. Serenading the reluctant eagle 780.973 Tawa Excerpt from the Preface: This book is offered to the reader with the hope that it will abet a fuller comprehension of American musical culture in the twentieth century. It describes how contemporary American art music struggled to exist during the twenties and early thirties, and how the Great Depression seemed poised to wipe it out altogether. But, wonder of wonders, music took a new lease on life. Men and women began to flock to concerts as never before; performing ensembles proliferated; and composers felt they might have a real function to perform in American life. The period of the thirties and early forties has been described as the Golden Age of American music, a time when composers created vital works that audiences greeted with curiosity and which they often learned to enjoy. How this period of great cultural achievement came about and why it ended is the subject of these pages. Thomas, Evan Being Nixon: a man divided 92 N736t 2015 in this book, Evan Thomas peels away the layers of the complex, confounding figure who became America's thirty-seventh president. The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. Through high school and college, in the navy and in politics, he was constantly leading crusades and fighting off enemies real and imagined. As maudlin as he was Machiavellian, Nixon possessed the plainspoken eloquence to reduce American television audiences to tears with his career-saving "Checkers" speech; meanwhile, his darker half hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, earning him the notorious nickname "Tricky Dick." Thurow, Roger. Enough: why the world's poorest starve in an age363.8 of T542e plenty. 2012 Since the green revolution, we have known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet more than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases- most of them children in Afirca. This narrative shows how, in the past few decades, American and European policies conspired to keep the world's poorest people uhngry and unavble to feed themselves. Tinney, Janet. Bunker hill. 813.6 T591b 2005 Trapp, Maria AugustaA Family on Wheels: Further Adventures of the92 Von T774 Trapp Family Singers As thousands of readers know, the Trapp family fled from Austria to escape Hitler, and arrived in America nearly penniless to begin a new life as professional musicians. Maria Trapp has told that story in her heart-warming, popular book, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Now she shares her family's adventures from the time when she wrote the first book to their final tour I 1955, and in this story are the same elements of love, humor, drama and victory that made the earlier volume memorable. Including enough of their earlier experiences to make this book stand independently, Mrs. Trapp continues the fascinating story of their life in Vermont and on more American and international concert tours. A successful South American tour launched them on a series of international engagements - including a return to Europe and their old home in Austria, where after twelve years' absence they received a royal welcome. They also sang in Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia, and Mrs. Trapp has included here an unforgettable account of their visit to Father Damien's famous Molokai leper colony in Hawaii. A last American tour marked the end of a distinguished musical career for the Trapp Family Singers. Writing in that warm, humorous style characteristic of her other book, Maria Trapp gives the reader a real feeling of sharing her family's joie de vivre and wonder as they fly over the Andes and visit the tomb of St. Peter - and their pleasure in making new friends around the world and returning to old friends at home. Readers will find in A Family on Wheels a wonderful companion to The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Trudeau, Noah Andre.Like men of war: black troops in the Civil War,973.7 1862-1865. T866 Author t Title t Call Summary, etc. note Tunis, Edwin. Colonial craftsmen: and the beginnings of American680 T926c industry. 2011 Edwin Tunis vividly reconstructs the vanished ways of colonial America's skilled craftsmen. With incomparable wit and learning, and in over 450 meticulous drawings, the artist-author describes the skills, technologies, workshops, town and country trades, and individual and group enterprises by which early Americans forged an economy in the New World. Vaicikonis, Kristina, editor.American Civil War. 973.7 V128a 2012 A history of the American Civil War, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources. Vincent, Fay. We would have played for nothing: baseball stars796.357 of the V771w 1950s 2008 and 1960s talkIs full about of fascinating the game storiesthey loved about. how these great ballplayers broke into baseball, about the inevitable frustrations of trying to negotiate a contract with owners who always had the upper hand, and about great games and great stars--teammates and opponents--whose influence shaped these ballplayers' lives forever. Volo, James M. The antebellum period 973.6 V929a 2016 The Antebellum Era was a complex time in American culture. Suitors called on young ladies, men often settled quarrels by dueling and "mill girls" worked 16-hour days to help support their families. Yet a new America was emerging simultaneously. The rapid growth of cities inspired Frederick Law Olmstead to lead the movement for public parks. Stephen Foster helped to forge a catalog of American popular music. Writers such as Washington Irving and Ralph Waldo Emerson raised the level of American literature, and artists such as Thomas Cole and Thomas Doughty defined a new style of painting called the Hudson River School. All the while, schisms between northern and southern culture threatened to divide the nation. This volume recounts how the old America intersected with the new in the decades before the Civil War. Wagenen, Maya van Popular: a memoir: vintage wisdom for a modern155.5 geek W131p 2014 "A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen. Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at "pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren't paid to be here," Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise-meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humor and grace, Maya's journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence. "-- Waldman, Steven Founding faith: providence, politics, and the birth322.44 of religiousW164f 2009 freedom in AmericaThe culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Author Waldman, cofounder of Beliefnet.com, argues that the United States was not founded as a "Christian nation," nor were the Founding Fathers uniformly secular or Deist. Rather, the Founders forged a new approach to religious liberty, a revolutionary formula that promoted faith--by leaving it alone. His narrative begins with early settlers' stunningly unsuccessful efforts to create a Christian paradise, and concludes with the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, during which the men who had devised lofty principles regarding the proper relationship between church and state struggled to practice what they'd preached.--From publisher description. Waldman, Steven Founding faith: providence, politics, and the birth323.44 of religiousW164f 2014 freedom in AmericaThe culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Author Waldman, cofounder of Beliefnet.com, argues that the United States was not founded as a "Christian nation," nor were the Founding Fathers uniformly secular or Deist. Rather, the Founders forged a new approach to religious liberty, a revolutionary formula that promoted faith--by leaving it alone. His narrative begins with early settlers' stunningly unsuccessful efforts to create a Christian paradise, and concludes with the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, during which the men who had devised lofty principles regarding the proper relationship between church and state struggled to practice what they'd preached.--From publisher description. Walsh, Kenneth T. Ronald Reagan. 92 R287w Weatherford, Doris. A history of the American Suffragist movement.324.623 W362h 2012 Traces the roots of the suffrage movement from 17th-century colonial America to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, emphasizing the connections of the women's movement to the other great 19th-century reform movements of abolitionism and temperance. Whalan, Mark American culture in the 1910s 306.097 W552a 2016 The book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterized by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Chapters on fiction and poetry, art, and photography, film, and Vaudeville, and music, theatre, and dance explore these developments, linking detailed commentary with focused case studies and influential texts and events. These range from Tarzan of the Apes to the birth of a Nation, from the radical modernism of Gertrude Stein and the Provincetown Players to the earliest jazz recordings. The final chapter explores the huge impact of the First World War on cultural understandings of nationalism, citizenship, and propaganda. White, Ronald C., Jr. Lincoln's greatest speech: the second inaugural.973.7 W587L 2003 In this study on the preparation, delivery, and influences of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, the author illuminates Lincoln's literary artistry and profound religious beliefs. Whitelaw, Nancy. Supreme court justices: Thurgood Marshall. 92 M369w 2010 Thurgood Marshall realized from an early age that he would devote his life to ending racial injustice. After earning an undergraduate degree from Lincol;n University, and a law degree from the Howard University Law School, Marshall began working as an attorney for the National association for the Advancemewnt of Colored People. Marshall achieved remarkable success, culminating in the historic Supreme Court decision that ended legal segregation in America's public schools. In the 1960s, Marshall entered government service when President Kennedy appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Later in the decade President Johnson asked Marshall to serve as solicitor general and, in a fitting tribute to a man who had argued dozens of cases before the highest court in the land, selected Thurgood Marsgall to be the first African American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Wilbur, C. Keith. Home building and woodworking in colonial America.694 W666h 2011 This profusely illustrated sourcebook of seventeenth and eighteenth century construction reveals the expertise and foresight of Colonial builders who created structures that could withstand decades, even centuries, of wear and weather. Wilson, Charles ReaganEncyclopedia of Southern Culture. 975 W752 Winch, Julie Between slavery and freedom: free people of color973 W758b in American 2015 from settlementBetween to the Slavery civil warand Freedom: Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War explores the complex world of those people of African birth or descent who occupied the "borderlands" between slavery and freedom in the 350 years from the founding of the first European colonies in what is today the United States to the start of the Civil War. However they navigated their way out of bondage, through flight, military service, or self-purchase, or through the workings of the law in different times and different places, or because they were the offspring of parents who were themselves free, they were determines to enjoy the same rights and liberties that white people enjoyed. In a concise narrative and selected primary documents, noted historian Julie Winch shows the struggle of black people to gain and maintain their liberty and lay claim to freedom in its fullest sense. Refusing to be relegated to the margins of American society and languish in poverty and ignorance, they repeatedly challenged their white neighbors to live up to the promise of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Winik, Jay. April 1865: the month that saved America. 973.7 W772a 2011 The people and events of the last month of America's Civil War are described here lucidly and in great detail, making this an absorbing account of the final days of the conflict. Reflected in his approach is Winik's (he's affiliated with the U. of Maryland's School of Public Affairs) original premise for taking on the project: he wished to understand not only why and how the American Civil War ended, but the reasons that its originating conflict was thereby laid to rest, unlike other conflicts which continue to persist, for example in the Balkans and Northern Ireland. Yancy, Diane. Life during the Dust Bowl. 973.91 Ya21L 2006 Yerkow, Lila Perl Slumps, grunts, and snickerdoodles: what colonial641.5 A Perlmerica ate and why Explains the diets and culinary innovations of the American colonists and gives thirteen colonial recipes, including succotash, snickerdoodles, and spoon bread. Young, Alfred F. Masquerade: the life and times of Deborah Sampson,92 S192y continental 2011 soldier. The remarkable story of the woman who fought in the American Revolution as Robert Shurtliff and got away with it. Serving for seventeen months during the period between the British surrender at Yorktown and the signing of the final treaty, a time when peace was far from secure, Deborah Sampson accomplished her deception by becoming an outstanding soldier. Young, William The 1930s 973.9 Y78ni 2016 The dark cloud of the Depression shadowed most of Americans' lives during the 1930s. Books, movies, songs, and stories of the 1930s gave Americans something to hope for by depicting a world of luxury and money. Major figures of the age included Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Irving Berlin, Amelia Earhart, Duke Ellington, the Marx Brothers, Margaret Mitchell, Cole Porter, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth, Shirley Temple, and Frank Lloyd Wright. innovations in technology and travel hinted at a Utopian society just off the horizon, group sports and activities gave the unemployed masses ways to spend their days, and a powerful new demographic--the American teenager--suddenly found itself courted by advertisers and entertainers. Young, William H. The 1950s 973.921 Y78ni 2016 Have the 1950s been overly romanticized? Beneath the calm, conformist exterior, new ideas and attitudes were percolating. This was the decade of McCarthyism, Levitowns, and men in gray flannel suits, but the 1950s also saw bold architectural styles, the rise of paperback novels and the Beat writers, Cinema Scope, and film noir, television variety shows, the Golden Age of the automobile, subliminal advertising, fast food, Frisbees, ang Silly Putty. Meanwhile, teens attained a more prominent role in American culture with hot rods, rock 'n' roll, preppies and greasers, and juvenile delinquency. At the same time, a new technological threat, the atom bomb, lurked beneath the surface of the postwar decade. This volume presents a nuanced look at a surprisingly complex time in American popular culture. Zak, Albin J. III. I don't sound like nobody: remaking music in 781.6401950s America. Z21id 2011 Approaches musical and historical issues of the 1950s through the lens of recordings and fashions a compelling story of the birth of a new musical language.