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Summary: Collects speeches, memos, and other documents written for the possibility of failure in wars and foreign relations throughout American history, left unsaid and unpublished due to turn of events and sudden changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BRUArmstrong, Jennifer
Summary: One hundred brief stories about real people and occurences in American history, arranged in chronological order by year from 1565 to 2000
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 ARMMcMahon, Sharon
Summary: "From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thesis 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLERoosevelt, Theodore
Summary: In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in the remarkable way ordinary Americans demonstrated the real character of the young nation. They were convinced that the brilliance of American liberty could best be found in the lives of everyday people, rather than in accounts of the famous...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.09 ROOVowell, Sarah
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 VOWVowell, Sarah
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 VOWSummary: More than 450 accounts of the myriad customs, beliefs, legends, languages, adventures, and traditions that helped form America, illustrated with over 700 photographs, paintings, and engravings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DISWill, George F.
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will, his ninth collection of reflections on our culture, examining the many ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, andsocial venues. George F. Will has been one of this country's leading columnists since 1974. He won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1977. The Wall...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 WILRowe, Mike
Summary: "Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights. It's a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-read"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain RoweBeck, Glenn
Summary: History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts of heroism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 BECAxelrod, Alan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 AZEGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Presents a companion volume to The History Channel's documentary which recounts the events of ten pivotal days that changed the course of American history.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973 GILFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1989