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Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1900-1909. Includes the assassination of President McKinley; the stream of immigrants into the Great American Melting Pot; Wild West shows that brought the untamed frontier to cities; the first motion pictures; the construction of the New York subway; Coney Island; and the marches of John Philip Sousa.
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles and achievements during 1910-1919. Includes information about William Howard Taft; the political comeback of Teddy Roosevelt; the "Bull Moose" party; enactment of child labor laws; the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand that started World War I; the sinking of the Lusitania in which 1198 died; the submarine battles of World War I; U.S. participation...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles and achievements during 1920-1929. America shifted from a rural to an urban society, signalling a new era of development which ended with a shattering crash in 1929. Includes the end of World War I; Prohibition in the U.S.; Al Capone's reign of terror in Chicago; the Sacco and Vanzetti executions; the age of the flapper; Lindbergh's solo flight...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1930-1939. Includes the soup and bread lines of the Great Depression; the end of Prohibition; Roosevelt's New Deal; Adolf Hitler, the demonic Fuhrer that hypnotized Germany; the Nazis' devastating Blitzkrieg in Europe; Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics; the golden age of baseball; Joe DiMaggio and the Yankees; Douglas...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1940-1949. America mobilized for total war, bringing the fateful dawn of the atomic age. It was the decade of G.I. Joe, victory gardens, gas rationing, zoot suits and penny loafers. Includes discussion of the global conflict of World War II; the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declaration of war; rations and shortages;...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1950-1959. Includes Harry Truman as the "give 'em hell" President; the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia; the Communist invasion of South Korea; the U.S. in the Korean War; Douglas MacArthur; Cuba's new dictator, Fidel Castro; bomb shelters as big business; Stalin replaced by Nikita Kruschev; Hungarian Freedom Fighters;...
Series
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Uses archival photographs, sound recordings, and film footage to explore world events, sports, life-styles, and achievements during 1960-1964. Looks at the Cuban missile crisis; the Bay of Pigs; the Berlin Wall; the civil war in Vietnam; civil rights; John Glenn's space flight; Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech; the assassination of John F. Kennedy; Hitchcock's classic thriller, Psycho; the Kennedy/Nixon debates; James Meredith enrolled in...
8) Some luck
Author
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
10) Golden age
Author
Series
Last hundred years volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the much-anticipated final volume of her magnificent, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the beloved Langdon family into our present times and beyond. A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy. When Golden Age, its last installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of the Langdon family is facing economic,...