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Language
English
Description
From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps--the largest oral history project in the nation's history--presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life and preserving them for...
3) Syria
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This books covers the current politics, economy, quality of life, society, culture, and security issues of Syria, including the war in Syria.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This book traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1990s, a time that included the Internet and its success in easing communication, movies created by computer, challenging activities called extreme sports, the Persian Gulf War, and more.
7) The 1980s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1980s, including the end of communism, the Iran-Contra affair, and pop culture of the time.
8) The 1970s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1970s, including Vietnam, race relations, feminism, the environment, fashion, music, television, and film.
10) The 1990s
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1990s.
12) The Nineties
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music.
It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn’t know who it was. By...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A historical thriller set during the Revolutionary War. Abe Woodhull is a farmer living in British-occupied Long Island who bands together with his friends to from the Culper Ring, an unlikely team of secret agents who not only went on to help George Washington turn the tide of the war, but also gave birth to modern spycraft.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The first-ever animated feature from StoryCorps celebrates the transformative power of listening. Presents stories from ten years of the innovative oral history project, where everyday people sit down together to ask life's important questions and share stories from their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bill Geist shares tales of eccentric individuals, such as the ninety-three-year-old pilot-paperboy who delivers to his far-flung subscribers by plane and the entrepreneur who finds success employing a sewer vacuum to rid Western ranchers of problematic prairie dogs.