Summary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STOKlimo, Kate
Summary: A stray dog's moving tale about life with Abraham Lincolnour sixteenth American president and a true animal lover!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLIStahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaEngle, Margarita
Summary: "De niña, a Teresa Carreño le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sentía triste, la música le levantaba el ánimo y, cuando estaba feliz, el piano la ayudaba a compartir esa alegría. Pronto comenzó a escribir sus propias canciones y a tocar en grandes catedrales. Entonces, una revolución en Venezuela hizo que su familia tuviera que huir a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: J468 SPANISH ENGArroyo, Raymond
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes a picture book biography of Tad Lincoln and his father President Abraham Lincoln and a story about a father's love for his son and the wisdom of a child. Tad Lincoln was forever getting into trouble. He bounced around the White House making mischief and annoying the staff. Only President Lincoln was never annoyed--he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LINCOLN ARRJones-Radgowski, Jehan
Summary: "With the stroke of a pen, President Abraham Lincoln freed the South's enslaved people in the midst of the brutal U.S. Civil War. Or did he? Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free? What effect did it have on the course of the Civil War? And what became of the inkstand with which he wrote the famous document? Find the answers to these questions and discover more of what an artifact...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.714 JONSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Carey, Charles W.
Summary: "The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declared all Confederate slaves to be free. Because the order only applied to Southern states that the Union did not control, few slaves benefited immediately. Learn more about this historic document that served as a key turning point in the U.S. Civil War and in the movement to abolish slavery"--provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.714 CARBowman, Donna Janell
Summary: As a young lawyer, Abraham Lincoln was known for his sense of humor. But in 1842, he did something so rascally--so downright mean--he was challenged to a duel. Lincoln needed his wit and a healthy dose of humility to save his life and his career. He didn't know it at the time, but the future of this great country was at stake. Ultimately, what he referred to as the meanest thing he had ever...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018