Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 WORCall number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1
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Mann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANFrench, Howard W.
Summary: "Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.22 FREMann, Charles C.
Summary: Charles Mann chronicles the Age of Exploration and its consequences. Here, he looks at how the European presence affected the Americas, China, and Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909.4 MANPadnani, Amisha
Summary: This book is inspired by "Overlooked," the New York Times series that celebrates extraordinary women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA figures, and people with disabilities who changed history. These people staggered us with their bravery, expanded our understanding of the world by innovating, and broke constraints in an unspoken mission to create a better future for others.--Adapted from back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.02 PADLiulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 909 LIULiulevicius, Vejas G.
Summary: Examines the fundamental question of our times: why was the 20th century so violent? It looks at the ideologies that promised utopias and total solutions to social problems and relates the terrible human toll of attempts to realize these ideas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 UTOCall number: DVD 909 UTO PART 1
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Summary: It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TITKennedy, Paul M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.82 KENSummary: The post Cold War era began with a decade of conflicts often mediated by the United States as the world's only remaining superpower. The September 11 terrorist attacks, however, marked the dawning of a new era. The United States became preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, while around the world, new challenges and threats emerged: a more assertive Russia, an increasingly powerful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909 POSMcGovern, Ann.
Summary: Describes what it was like to live in the New England colonies during the years 1565 to 1776.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974 MCGRosenzweig, Paul
Summary: In the centuries since the founding of the republic, there have been notable challenges to presidential authority. Among these are investigations, designed to seek out and uproot abuses of executive power. They are built on a system of institutions, laws, and policies that govern how our nation protects itself from corruption and tyranny. Even today, we see this system at work in controversies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Karloff, examining his illustrious 60-year career in the entertainment industry and his enduring legacy as one of the icons of 20th century popular culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BORHaass, Richard
Summary: "This book is designed to provide readers with the background and building blocks they need in order to answer for themselves the critical questions about what is taking place around the world and why. It explains what makes each region of the world tick,the many challenges globalization presents, and the most influential countries, events, and ideas. Its aim is to help readers become more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.09 HAASheehan, J. Kevin.
Summary: A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation is a thought-provoking and much-heralded first work from nationally recognized entreprenuer and author J. Kevin Sheehan. With 207 gorgeous photographs and a splendid design from award-winning graphic artist Jan Lindy Boyce, the book lays out cinematically, with sprawling visuals that present critical themes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: True Gifts Pub. 2007
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 158.4 SHESnyder, Timothy
Summary: The author argues that American society is leaning toward despotism and totalitarianism and looks back at the 20th century for examples of how totalitarianism has taken over before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Farrier, David
Summary: The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his medition on climate change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020