Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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c2023., Pre-adolescent, Lightbox Learning Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History makers: past and present.Summary Note: In 2018, at the age of 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the younges woman ever selected to Congress. Alexandria has faced many obstacles as a ppolitidcian. She is young, belongs to a visible minority, and comes from a working-class background. Find out more about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in this title.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: HI-INT 364.1 BRI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the 1947 government investigation into the motion picture industry by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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2018., Juvenile, Calkins Creek Call No: 323 BRIMMER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the history of blacklisting in Hollywood during the Cold War. Highlights the experiences of nineteen men from the film industry who were called before the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities, all nineteen insisting that these trials violated their First Amendment rights.
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2007., Grand Central Pub. Call No: Adventure FIC Baldacci Edition: 1st United States pbk. ed. Genre: Adventure Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Washington D.C., four men calling themselves the Camel Club investigate the connection between the assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House and the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare books. Adding a sexy con artist named Annabelle Conroy to their group, the club discovers a plot to sell classified secrets to America's enemies.
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c1996., Enslow Publishers Call No: B CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Legendary heroes of the Wild WestSummary Note: Relates the true story of Davy Crockett, one of the Old West's outstanding hunters, frontiersmen, and legislators.
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By Bush, Cori2022., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: MEMOIR NF BUS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Embodying a new chapter in progressive politics that prioritizes the lives and stories of the most politically vulnerable, the first black woman to represent the state of Missouri in Congress presents a powerful and empowering memoir that is both a personal account and a fierce call to action.
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-- John Lewis and the power of hope[2020]., Random House Call No: MEMOIR NF LEW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography about civil rights leader and longtime U.S. Congressman John Lewis written using interviews with Lewis and his family and research into the civil rights movement.
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c2000., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 328.73 072 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Your government--how it worksSummary Note: Surveys the history of the House of Representatives and describes its structure, current function, and influence on American society.
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By Doeden, Matt[2021]., Juvenile, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to open Series Title: Gateway biographiesSummary Note: Explores the life and career of civil rights activist and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Includes a chronology, resources for further information, and color photographs.
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[2013]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: U S HISTORY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents in graphic novel format the life of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on is youth in rural Alabama, his meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
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[2015]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: U S HISTORY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
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[2015]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: U S HISTORY Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
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[2015]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN-HISTORY MAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
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[2016]., Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN-HISTORY MAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Project Lit 19-20 Volume: 3Summary Note: A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
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[2015], Adolescent, Top Shelf Productions Call No: GN LEW Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s) Series Title: March Volume: 2Summary Note: After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before.
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c2008., Juvenile, Lee & Low Books Call No: B SMA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of Robert Smalls who, during the Civil War, commandeered the Confederate ship Planter to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom, and went on to become a United States Congressman working toward African American advancement.
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-- My journey from refugee to Congresswoman[2020]., Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Call No: MEMOIR NF OMA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A . . . memoir by progressive trailblazer Ilhan Omar-the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women, elected to Congress"--Provided by publisher.
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c2004., Capstone Press Call No: 328.73 DUB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: First facts.Summary Note: Introduces the United States House of Representatives and how a bill becomes a law.
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2012., Primary, Capstone Press Call No: E Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Pebble plus : the U.S. government.Summary Note: Text and photographs provide a brief introduction to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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2010., Juvenile, PowerKids Press Call No: 328.73 072 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: How our government worksSummary Note: This book tells how House votes work, how representatives are elected, and how seats in the House are apportioned.