Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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2000., Knopf Call No: 323.4 3 0973 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traces the rise of America's gun culture to the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that Civil War gun manufacturing and allowing ex-soldiers to keep their weapons changed the gun from a scarce and seldom-used tool to a perceived necessity.
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-- Call & response[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 323.1196 073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This timely book covers the rise of Black Lives Matter and how it has been shaped by United States history, telling the story of how a hashtag became a movement.
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2018., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 973.7 Fre Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Examines the status of the U.S. Congress in the decades leading up to the U.S. Civil War, arguing that while some feel like today's politics are hyperpolarized they are still nothing compared to those days--explores stories of congressmen who routinely made threats, flipped desks, some brandished pistols and knives, and one even killed another in a duel over issues as contentious as the legal status of slavery. Newspapers and reporters were no different, publishing outlandish conspiracy theories.
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[2007]., Adolescent, Black Cat,imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Call No: Fantasy Fic Alexie Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Flight follows a troubled foster teenager--a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father. The journey begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why "Hell is Red River, Idaho, in the 1970s." Red River is only the first stop in an eye-opening trip through moments in American history. He will continue traveling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then ride with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels through time, his refrain grows: "Who's to judge?" and "I don't understand humans."
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[2014]., Rowman & Littlefield Call No: NL 973 ALV Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Studies in genocideSummary Note: This provocative book asks whether or not the Native Populations of North America experienced genocide. Drawing on examples such as the Sand Creek Massacre and the Long Walk of the Navajo, the author shows the diversity of Native American experiences post-contact and uncovers the complex realities of this difficult period in the American history.
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c2002., Little, Brown, and Co. Call No: 796.323 FEI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the events surrounding a fistfight between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers in 1977 in which Rudy Tomjanovich was nearly killed by a blow from Kermit Washington and discusses how both men's lives, and the game of basketball, were affected by the fight.
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-- Sitting in Saint James[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books Call No: Historical Fic Williams-Garcia Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1860 Louisiana, on a failing plantation, the matriarch of the Guilbert family tries to hold on to the last vestiges of their power and prestige. Entwined in their struggle are their brutally treated slaves, including sixteen-year-old Thisbe, who is the matriarch's personal servant. As the antebellum power structure crumbles, Thisbe and the the other plantation slaves wait for their moment to pursue a long road to freedom.
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-- Bleeding Kansas2001., Linnet Books Call No: 973.71 ZEI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Excerpts from diaries and letters help chronicle the events which lead to the formation of the Kansas Territory and describe how abolitionists and slaveowners tried to influence whether it would become a slave state or free.
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-- Tulsa Race Massacre[2021]., Juvenile, Carolrhoda Books Call No: 976.68 Wea Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A picture book that sensitively examines the racial massacre in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. The book describes the residents of the prosperous African American community, and what happened when a white mob attacked and destroyed the town. Includes an author's and an illustrator's note with photographs.