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Emancipation road [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Batty, Coby.; Mill Creek Entertainment.;
Disc 1. The shadows of slavery -- The emancipation proclamation -- Separate but equal.Disc 2. Regardless of the color of one's skin -- The double victory -- The Civil Rights era -- Heroes of hope.Narrator, Coby Batty.The story of African Slavery in America started with the first permanent English Colony in the 17th century, and ended with the Civil War. But those two hundred and fifty years of struggle were just the beginning.E.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital surround.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Documentary television programs.; Slavery;
© c2015., Mill Creek Entertainment,
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Voces: Latino Vote 2024. by Ruiz, Bernardo,film director.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by PBS in 2024.This multiplatform documentary examines the priorities of a politically diverse Latino electorate in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. It focuses on key issues that will drive Latino voter turnout in some of the most hotly contested battleground states like Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as California and Florida, which have large Latino populations.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; History, Modern.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; United States--Politics and government.; History.; Social problems.; United States.; Presidents--Election.; Elections.; Hispanic Americans.; Voting.;
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Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst : everyday life in Upper Canada, 1812-1814 / by Duncan, Dorothy.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-239), Internet addresses and index.LSC
© c2012., Dundurn Press,
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Africatown : America's last slave ship and the community it created / by Tabor, Nick,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it. An evocative and epic story, Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants in the face of persistent racism"--
Subjects: Clotilda (Ship); African Americans; Slavery; West Africans;
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The Curse of Oak Island. by The History® Channel (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by The History® Channel in 2014.THE CURSE OF OAK ISLAND follows brothers Marty and Rick Lagina as they investigate the mystery of a buried treasure on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; History, Modern.; Social sciences.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; History.; Canada.; Documentary television programs.; Reality television programs.;
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Wild minds : the artists and rivalries that inspired the golden age of animation / by Mitenbuler, Reid,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1911, the famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted an animated version of his popular newspaper strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Loosely inspired by Sigmund Freud's research on dreams, the film was one of the very first of its kind. McCay is largely forgotten today, but his work helped unleash the creative energy of animators like Otto Messmer, Max Fleischer, Walt Disney, and Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates, were as colorful and subversive as their creations-from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny to feature films such as Fantasia-which became an integral part of American culture over the next five decades. Before television, animated cartoons were often "little hand grenades of social and political satire" aimed squarely at adults. Early Betty Boop cartoons included nudity. Popeye stories slyly criticized the injustices of unchecked capitalism. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were used to explore hidden depths of the American psyche. "During its first half-century," Mitenbuler writes, "animation was an important part of the culture wars about free speech, censorship, the appropriate boundaries of humor, and the influence of art and media on society." During WWII it also played a significant role in propaganda. The golden age of animation ended with the advent of television when cartoons were sanitized to appeal to a growing demographic of children and help advertisers sell sugary breakfast cereals. Alongside these stories, Mitenbuler incorporates the surprising contributions of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), voice artist Mel Blanc, composer Leopold Stokowski, and many others whose talents influenced the world of animation. Illustrated throughout in both black-and-white and color, with rare drawings and photographs, Wild Minds is an ode to our lively past and to the creative energy that would inspire The Simpsons, South Park, and BoJack Horseman today"--
Subjects: Animated films; Animated television programs; Animated films; Animated television programs;
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La passione : how Italy seduced the world / by Hales, Dianne R.,1950-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A charming narrative and "pop historical" look into how Italy has shaped the Western world's most vibrant passions, from literature to love, music to art, food to wine"--
Subjects: Civilization, Western;
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Checkpoint Charlie : the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth / by MacGregor, Iain,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-326) and index."Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was to divide one of the most beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world; dividing families, friends and lovers. Its creation, and its sudden collapse twenty-seven years later, were the key moments of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie was the one place in a paranoid continent where East faced West across one hundred yards of No Man's Land. Where soldiers served, spies watched through trained binoculars, escapees fled, politicians made speeches, people died and, mothers wept. The Wall was seen by many as permanent as the Himalayas. Across the Wall's almost three decades of existence, over two hundred people died trying to escape through it to the West, and these are just the recorded deaths. Many more who attempted and failed to break to freedom, would later die of their wounds in an East German hospital or prison. Historian Iain MacGregor travels to America, Britain, Germany and France to talk to the many people the Berlin Wall affected and who found themselves at the gates of Checkpoint Charlie - either on the Allied, or Soviet side. He interviews soldiers, politicians, journalists, spies, policemen, refugees and escapees to build a picture of what life was like in the city that was universally seen as the "hot spot" of the Cold War for four decades"--
Subjects: Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Cold War;
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Finding Larkspur : a return to village life / by Needles, Dan,author.;
"Bestselling chronicler of village life Dan Needles (author of the Wingfield Farm stage plays) leads an insightful and laugh-out-loud tour through the quirks and customs of today's Canadian small town. Modern literature has not been kind to village life. For almost two centuries, small towns have been portrayed as backward, insular places needing to be escaped. But anthropologists tell us that the human species has spent more than 100,000 years living in villages of 100 to 150 people. This is where the oldest part of our brain, the limbic system, grew and adapted to become a very sophisticated instrument for reading other people's emotions and figuring out how we might cooperate to find food, shelter and protection. By comparison, the frontal cortex, which helps us do our taxes, drive a car and download cat videos, is a very recent aftermarket addition, like a sunroof. And it is the village where almost half the world's population still chooses to live. Finding Larkspur takes a walk through the Canadian village of the twenty-first century, observing customs and traditions that endure despite the best efforts of Twitter, Facebook and Amazon. The author looks at the buildings and organizations left over from the old rural community, why they were built in the first place and how they have adapted to the modern day. The post office, the general store, the church, the school and the service club all remain standing, but they operate quite differently than they did for our ancestors. Drawing from his experience working in rural communities across Canada and in other countries, Needles reveals how a national conversation may be driven by urban voices but the national character is often very much a product of its small towns and back roads."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Sociology, Rural; Villages; Villages;
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Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution. by Siebert, Detlef,film director.; Sutherland, Dominic,film director.; Heidenreich, Gert,actor.; Hunt, Linda,actor.; West, Samuel,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel WestOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 2005.It was the site of the largest mass murder the world has ever seen, yet few people know its full history. This landmark series builds into the most complete history of Auschwitz, the evolution of the camp and the mentality of the perpetrators. With the help of computer graphics, dramatic reconstructions and interviews with people who were there, including former members of the SS, the steps taken towards the 'Final Solution' are revealed.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Social sciences.; Military history..; History, Modern.; Judaism.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Ethnicity.; History.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).; World War, 1939-1945.; War.; Europe--History.; Jews--History.; National socialism.; Germany.; Documentary television programs.;
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