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Cannadine, David

Summary: To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science, and work–all while a growing religious skepticism rendered the intellectual landscape increasingly unrecognizable. It was an exhilarating time, and as a result, most of the countries in the world that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 CAN

Summary: 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

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Bunge, Nancy L.

Contents: Preparation for the journey -- The reality of mission life -- Building a home alone in the forest -- Standing with the Ojibwe against removal and smallpox -- Struggling against sickness -- Harriet's children -- Life without a mission.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BUN

Ayers, Edward L.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the expansion of slavery, Native dispossession, and wars with Canada and Mexico. Mass immigration and powerful religious movements sent tremors through American society. Even as the powerful defended the status quo, others defied voices from the margins moved the center; eccentric visions altered the accepted wisdom, and acts of empathy questioned...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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Pagnamenta, Peter.

Summary: Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAG

Bentley, Elizabeth Petty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1981

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3768 Bentl

Bentley, Elizabeth Petty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. 2000

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373 BEN

Jones, Martha S.

Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 Jon

Twain, Mark

Contents: [1] 1852-1890 --[2] 1891-1910.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.4 TWA

Bentley, Elizabeth Petty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1999

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373 BEN

Hodes, Martha Elizabeth.

Summary: Historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice moved from countryside to factory city, worked in the mills, then followed her husband to the Deep South. When the Civil War came, Eunice's brothers joined the Union army while her husband fought and died for the Confederacy. Back in New England, a widow and the mother of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.846 HOD

Wilton, Andrew.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2002

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 758.1 WIL

Summary: This was a period when wars and revolutions were coming thick and fast. Industrialization, the French Revolution, Romanticism-all these are reflected in the simplification of dress, the disappearance of lace and ruffles and the kind of ostentation that bespoke aristocracy. The growth of the English woolen industry led to the displacement of silk by wool. The same love of Orientalism and...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Lamarre, Jean

Contents: Quebec in the nineteenth century -- The development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 -- French Canadian migration to the Saginaw Valley, 1840-1900 -- French Canadian migration to the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LAM

Summary: As the age approaches our own, time accelerates; and in the six-and-a-half decades of Victoria's reign, changes came thick and fast: England's population doubled, the economy exploded, railways shrank the country's size, iron and steel were everywhere-in clothing too, in the women's steel hoops and cages and bustles. This was an age that began in moderation and soon became a contest for...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Cornwell, Bernard.

Summary: Five years after the battle of Waterloo, Sharpe's, peaceful retirement in Normandy is shattered by a plea for help. Don Blas Vivar is missing in Chile, reported dead at rebel hands, a report his wife refuses to believe. Sharpe and his companion, Patrick Harper set off to Chile, via St Helena where they meet the fallen Emperor Napoleon. Neither Sharpe or Harper realize what danger awaits them in...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 1998

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COR

Smeltzer, Elizabeth Lathwell.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Author 0000

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 Smelt

Treuer, David

Summary: The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 mega-bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 970.004 TRE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 TRE

Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PRO

Summary: "Women poets in nineteenth-century France made important contributions to major stylistic innovations - from the birth of elegiac Romanticism to the inauguration of free verse - and many were prominent in their lifetime. Yet only a few are known today, and nearly all have been unavailable in English translation. Of the fourteen poets of this anthology - the third bilingual volume in the MLA...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Language Association of America 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 448.4 ANT

Oates, Stephen B.

Contents: The speakers : Thomas Jefferson -- Henry Clay -- Nat Turner -- William Lloyd Garrison -- John C. Calhoun -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- George Fitzhugh -- Stephen A. Douglas -- Abraham Lincoln -- John Brown -- Jefferson Davis -- Mary Boykin Chesnut.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 OAT

Alcott, Louisa May

Contents: The rival painters -- The masked marriage -- The rival prima donnas -- The little seed -- A New Year's blessing -- The sisters' trial -- Little Genevieve -- Bertha -- Mabel's May day -- The lady and the woman -- Ruth's secret -- The cross on the church tower -- Agatha's confession -- Little sunbeam -- Marion Earle; or, Only an actress -- Mark Field's mistake -- Mark Field's success -- The...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ironweed Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALC

Wawro, Geoffrey.

Summary: "The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 violently changed the course of European history. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European and American archives for the first time, The Franco-Prussian War describes the war that followed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2003

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Cornwell, Bernard.

Summary: Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COR

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