Summary: People who are anonymous and whose lives are usually ignored in traditional historical accounts are no less important than more prominent individuals in influencing the flow of events. These ordinary, but often heroic, people are the focus of this course. Each of the 48 lectures looks at history from a nontraditional perspective, that of the weak and marginalized-- the poor, sick, disabled, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Courses 2012
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Contents: Professor Fargo -- Eugene Pickering -- Benvolio -- Crawford's consistency -- The ghostly rental -- Four meetings -- Rose-Agathe -- Daisy Miller: a study -- Longstaff's marriage -- An international episode -- The pension beaurepas -- The diary of a man of fifty -- A bundle of letters -- The point of view -- The siege of London -- The impressions of a cousin -- Lady Barberina -- Pandora -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMSummary: "For the first time in print, rich, provocative first-hand stories of life in the Bronx in the twentieth century. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s. The voices in this volume are as eclectic as the Bronx...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Tech University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 BROSummary: Mexico, our neighbor to the south, is a country rich in culture and ablaze with color. Journey through the seasons and discover the hidden underworlds, diversity of life, and a mosaic of vast landscapes that create a festival of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Empire Books] 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Phil ThoreauContents: v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / Paul Veyne, editor -- v. 2. Revelations of the medieval world / Georges Duby, editor -- v. 3. Passions of the Renaissance / Roger Chartier, editor -- v. 4. From the fires of Revolution to the Great War / Michelle Perrot, editor -- 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / Antoine Prost and G?erard Vincent, editors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 390 HISThoreau, Henry David
Summary: "Thoreau's most influential works, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, ask readers to question the status quo and live in accordance with their principles. Over 150 years since their initial publication, Thoreau's reflections on politics, simplicity, and independent living continue to inspire great readers and thinkers. Rediscover this beloved classic in an elegant keepsake edition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.303 THOContents: v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / Paul Veyne, editor -- v. 2. Revelations of the medieval world / Georges Duby, editor -- v. 3. Passions of the Renaissance / Roger Chartier, editor -- v. 4. From the fires of Revolution to the Great War / Michelle Perrot, editor -- 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent, editors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1987
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Contents: v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / Paul Veyne, editor. -- v. 2. Revelations of the medieval world / Georgr Duby, editor -- v. 3. Passions of the Renaissance / Roger Chartier, editor -- v. 4. From the fires of revolution to the Great War / Michelle Perrot, editor -- v. 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent, editors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 390 HISContents: v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / Paul Veyne, editor -- v. 2. Revelations of the medieval world / Georges Duby, editor -- v. 3. Passions of the Renaissance / Roger Chartier, editor -- v. 4. From the fires of Revolution to the Great War / Michelle Perrot, editor -- 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / Antoine Prost and GGerard Vincent, editors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 390 HISJenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENContents: v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / P. Veyne, editor -- v. 2. Revelations of the medieval world / G. Duby, editor -- v. 3. Passions of the Renaissance / R. Chartier, editor -- v. 4. From the fires of revolution to the great war / M. Perrot, editor -- v. 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / A. Prost and G. Vincent, editors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 390 HISBeecher, Catharine Esther
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Stowe-Day Foundation 1869
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 BEEBurns, Ken
Summary: "From one of our most treasured filmmakers, a pictorial history of America-a stunning and moving collection of Ken Burns's favorite photographs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 BURCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 973 BURHalls, Kelly Milner
Summary: "Have you ever wondered what life was like for individuals and families living through the Civil War? Learn about what their days consisted of, what they ate and wore, and more!"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 HALAldrich, Elizabeth
Summary: "An "all-you-can-eat" tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: State University of New York Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.54 ALDBrownstein, Ronald
Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BROSummary: Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019