Summary: "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SIXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SIXCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SIXCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Black Hannnah-JonesSummary: "25 Ready-to-Use Sustainable Living Programs for Libraries is an all-in-one guide to how to plan, organize, and run sustainable living programs in libraries"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ALA Editions 2023
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: R OFF 025.5 TWESummary: From the top of Everest to the deepest recesses of previously unexplored caves, from the heart of the sea to the far reaches of space, African American explorers and adventurers have helped chart the unknown, push the boundaries of the frontier, scale the heights, and shoot for the stars. With profiles of courageous and pioneering figures like Arctic explorer Matthew Alexander Henson, the Lewis...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Through centuries of suffering, slavery, inequality, discrimination, segregation, and racist violence, African Americans have endured, resisted, fought, and, increasingly over time, won many battles. These victories were propelled by a groundswell of grassroots action, but they were also motivated and organized by courageous and inspirational leadership. Journalists, abolitionists, educators,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Though often fighting for a country that did not recognize their rights or even their humanity, African Americans have fought courageously in every American war. Even though they often knew they would return to civilian lives of limited opportunities and unequal treatment, they served their nation with conviction and distinction. This volume offers inspiring profiles of African American service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: America the Beautiful' showcases the stunning spaces closest to our nation's heart--from the woods in the Great Appalachian Valley that Davy Crockett once called home to the breathtaking sweep of California's Big Sur coast to the wilds of Alaska. It also celebrates the people who have made this country what it is, featuring a wide range of images including the Arikara Nation in the early 1900s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 AMESummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 725.1 AMESummary: The ideas that animate mainstream American conservatism have long been misunderstood or belittled. Here, in a sweeping gathering of 45 essential conservative writers, editor Andrew Bacevich surveys the core currents of conservative thought in the United States since 1900: the importance of tradition, the value of familial and local ties, the mounting of resistance to an ever-expanding state,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 AMESummary: "From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 AMESummary: How do wrongful convictions happen, and what are the consequences for the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent? Fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories, while another exoneree's case is explored. They detail every aspect of the experience of wrongful conviction, as well as the remarkable depths of endurance sustained by each exoneree who never lost hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.973 CALSummary: "The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice is a community manifesto of essays, poems, recipes, and art describing people who stepped up in the absence of government leadership. In March 2020, when the US government failed to provide personal protective equipment in the face of COVID-19, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged to meet a critical need--sewing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 AUNSummary: Offers information and instructions on living a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle, including how to build a log cabin, how to raise livestock, and how to make candles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 BACSummary: "The ASVAB is the qualifying test required for recruits entering all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as current service members who want to raise their score to qualify for more exclusive specialties or officer training. This comprehensive test preparation guide includes: a diagnostic ASVAB to identify areas needing improvement, four full-length practice exams, including the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barrons Educational Series, Inc. 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 ASVSummary: "Provides a comprehensive history of the 175 African Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Written for a general audience, this book contains a profile of each African-American Member, including notables such as Hiram R. Revels, Joseph H. Rainey, Oscar De Priest, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Augustus F. "Gus" Hawkins, and Barbara Jordan. Individual profiles are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: U.S. Government Publishing Office 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73092 BLASummary: For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomson Reuters 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 340.03 BLASummary: This book is a plea to America to understand what life post-slavery remains like for many African Americans, who are descended from people whose unpaid labor built this land, but have had to spend the last century and a half carrying the dual burden of fighting racial injustice and rising above the lowered expectations and hateful bigotry that attempt to keep them shackled to that past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 BURSummary: "This ongoing series serves as a stepping stone in understanding specific careers and provides a wealth of information on the education and training needed within each profession along with a look towards the future of the field with an informative employment outlook. Students interested in a career in financial services have an incredibly wide variety of career path options including Corporate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.702 CARSummary: "The most comprehensive collection ever assembled of World War II cartoon art. More than 90% of the cartoons and comics inside have not been seen since first publication"--Page 4 of cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARSummary: "The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar -- an indispensable reference informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. Much has happened in the years since the publication of the seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. The world has transformed, and the Manual has risen to meet the moment. The eighteenth edition of this classic guide for writers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 CHI1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808.02 CHI
Summary: In the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf. It offers updated guidelines on electronic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 CHISummary: This resource guide is structured around the 89 most prevalent chronic illnesses and provides a comprehensive overview of the support services and information resources available for people diagnosed with a chronic illness. Each chronic illness has its own chapter and contains a brief description in layman's language followed by important resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021