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"In one vitally significant year in American history, the country would experience turmoil, instability, natural disaster, bubbling political radicalism, and a rise of dangerous forces ushering in a new era of global conflict--and emerge both afresh and revitalized. At the start of 1932, the nation's worst economic crisis has left one-in-four workers without a job, countless families facing eviction, banks shutting down as desperate depositors withdraw...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"While visiting family in Mississippi in August 1955, Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman working behind the counter of a crossroads country store. Her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped the fourteen-year-old Chicago kid in the middle of the night and tortured, beat, and shot him. Three days later, his body rose from the Tallahatchie River, a cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Confronting her son's nightmarishly disfigured...
4) Canada
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English
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Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the “true patriot” heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director, and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time. But as he says: “No description of me is truly complete without saying I'm a Canadian.” He has often winked and nodded to Canada in his outrageously accomplished body of work, but now he...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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"In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't...
6) The league
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the 20th century.
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English
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"In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a televised speech in support of Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "The Speech," as it has come to be known, helped launch Ronald Reagan as a leading force in the American conservative movement. However, less than twenty years earlier, Reagan was a prominent Hollywood liberal, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, and a fervent supporter of FDR and Harry Truman. While many agree that Reagan's...
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The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Published for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, a designer so prolific and familiar as to nearly preclude critical reexamination. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Taliesin West, Arizona (recently acquired by MoMA and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University), the book is a collection of scholarly...
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Film Ideas
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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The atomic bomb race was launched in 1939. To achieve the fission of uranium, France and Germany needed heavy water that was made in a Norwegian factory. From 1939 to 1944, the allies carried out several secret operations to prevent Hitler from seizing these stocks of heavy water. This video relates this little-known episode of the Second World War and includes unpublished testimonies, information from archives, and images interspersed throughout...
10) Becoming nobody
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Love Serve Remember Foundation
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Ram Dass shares the essence of his core wisdom through his iconic humor, joy, and honesty. Historical footage compliments an engaging conversation with director Jamie Catto as they explore the life experiences that helped to free Ram Dass from the attachment to his "somebody-ness" a journey that transformed him into the radiant soul who now inspires a new generation. It is the quintessential portal to Ram Dass' life and teachings
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of Titan rises: Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries, from the highways to the skyways. After years of fighting each other, and FDR, these rivals must unite during World War II to defeat a greater enemy and save the world.
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HBO Home Box Office
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[2020?]
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English
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From award-winning director/producer Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing him to be a man with an unshakeable commitment to peaceful...
13) Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans & Japanese Canadians in the twentieth century
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Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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"Challenging the notion that Nikkei individuals before and during World War II were helpless pawns manipulated by forces beyond their control, the diverse essays in this collection focus on the theme of resistance within Japanese American and Japanese Canadian communities to twentieth-century political, cultural, and legal discrimination. They illustrate how Nikkei groups were mobilized to fight discrimination through assertive legal challenges, community...
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