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Publication Date
2009.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (39 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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1945 marked the end of World War II and the beginning of the power, politics and prosperity of the Post-War years. The presidency passed from Truman to Eisenhower and millions moved out of the city and onto the Interstate Highway System. The Cold War loomed, babies boomed, and the suburban family became the bull’s-eye for the mass market. Americans turned-on their televisions and tuned-in their car radios to hear the latest music fad: rock ‘n...
Publication Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The conquests of Alexander the Great gave birth to the world we call Hellenistic. Observe how Alexander’s military expansionism brought a vast geographical area under the influence of Greek civilization. Note how the conquered peoples embraced Hellenistic culture, how Alexander’s empire fragmented after his death, and how the majestic city of Alexandria became a major center of learning.
Publication Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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Mission San Diego de Alcala As one admires the impressive white chapel facade of Mission San Diego de Alcala, it would be correct to say, "it all began here"; its history dates back to July 16, 1769, when it was established as California's first mission by Father Junipero Serra; thus beginning the California mission system, which secured the area for settlements that ultimately led to statehood for California in 1850. Today, the Mission is a National...
Publication Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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8. Mission San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, California, was immortalized in the 1940 song, "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano," and became best known for the migration of cliff swallows that migrate here each year from Argentina to Mission San Juan Capistrano. To honor this annual phenomenon, the city celebrates St. Joseph's Day, March 19, with a Swallows' Day Parade. Mission San Juan Capistrano also has the distinction of being home...
Publication Date
1996.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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“Time after time, Congress and the people in the East saw the West as a safety valve, a place where you could go and escape the problems of where you were, it was part of the whole myth of the West. You could escape and be free. Well, we thought we could escape whatever national tensions and unresolved problems we had, but it came back you know, like a big wind from the prairie, bigger and bigger each time. - Dayton DuncanThe United States had envisioned...
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2016.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In 2002 we were offered an opportunity to make a long-term observation film about the radical expansion of a well-known small museum in the Berkshires, the Clark Art Institute. It was built in the 1950s in a neo-classical style. Sterling and Francine Clark, passionate collectors of Impressionist paintings, had been planning to build a museum for their collection on Manhattan’s Upper East Side close to the Frick Collection. Cold War concerns about...
Publication Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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When the Tuscan city of Pisa commissioned David Chipperfield to create a master plan that would bring new vitality to this historic place on the Arno, an exhibition of a selection of work produced by him in the last 25 years was also invited. Chipperfield chose "form matters" as a title for the exhibition, as 'form' and 'matter' are all-important key elements of the language of architecture. We asked him to lead the way through the models, drawings...
Publication Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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The lives, times and music of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Ethel Waters and other legendary women illustrate how the blues became a vital part of American culture. Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women...
9) February One
Publication Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 61 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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February One: Organization of American Historians Erik Barnouw Award Honorable Mention Recipient In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. February One tells the inspiring story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an example of student militancy for the coming decade. This moving film shows how a small group of determined individuals can...
Publication Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 71 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords is the first film to chronicle the history of the Black press, including its central role in the construction of modern African American identity. It recounts the largely forgotten stories of generations of Black journalists who risked life and livelihood so African Americans could represent themselves in their own words and images. The Black Press takes viewers "behind the veil" of segregation to recover a...





