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The natural history of sexuality in early America / Greta LaFleur

Barker Library - HQ18.U5 L34 2018




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Comparative studies in Asian and Latin American philosophies: cross-cultural theories and methodologies / edited by Stephanie Rivera Berruz and Leah Kalmanson

Hayden Library - B799.C646 2018




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The 1923 American Silk Mission to Asia

Dancing geishas, ancient palaces, drifting over misty rivers in a houseboat. The adventures of a businessman traveling through China, Japan, and Korea in 1923 are captured within the detailed correspondence and ephemera saved by Myron S. Falk (1878-1945), an engineer from New York City who was sent on a trip to Asia with the American Silk...

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“Undaunted, defiant & unsubdued”: The American Eagle

Though not yet recognized nationally, today is American Eagle Day, the anniversary of the eagle’s inclusion on the Great Seal of the United States on June 20, 1782. Despite also becoming our national emblem in 1789, for decades at the end of the last century the eagle was in dire circumstances. The effects of DDT...

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America’s First Jewish Settlers

The genealogy of America’s earliest Jews can be traced through multiple veins of the Nathan family, including the Hendricks branch, the Seixas branch, and the Mendes branch. However, perhaps no part of the Nathan bloodline is as historically rich and prestigious as their connection to the Gomez family, through which Edgar J. Nathan, Jr.–whose papers have...

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African American Freemasonry and New York’s Grand Colored Lodge

A recent acquisition by the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library at N-YHS sheds light on the early history of African American freemasonry. The twelve-page, handwritten Proceedings of the Convention of the Grand Colored Lodge, dated 1845, outlines the intentions of the members of three African American masonic lodges to unite under the auspices of one “Grand Lodge.”...

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“In his native tongue”: A Fleeting Glimpse of the Irish Language in 19th Century America

With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner it’s perfect timing for an addendum to this post from a few years ago. It discussed the largely overlooked reality that many nineteenth century Irish immigrants spoke Irish, some exclusively. As it turns out, a curious exchange has turned up in a journal kept by the Irish Quaker merchant, Jacob Harvey,...

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Gustavus Conyngham: American Privateer

On July 3, 1776, the Continental Congress authorized privateering on the high seas. Essentially, any private citizen who obtained a Commission of Marque and Reprisal would be permitted to capture British ships. A common warfare tactic since the Middle Ages, the intent of the act was to weaken the enemy at sea while trading confiscated...

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Becoming American: The Education Committee for Non-English Speaking Women

Five women huddle around an apartment table on January 18, 1923. Some balance babies on their laps. Older children look on. One boy in a knitted cap stares at the camera, more interested by the photographer than by what the ladies are doing. They seem to be copying in notebooks the exemplars from a portable chalkboard...

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Now on View–A Tale for Youth: Amusement and Instruction in American Children’s Books

The entertainment and moral education of children through books has not always been intertwined. American Puritanism frowned upon the fantastical imaginations that children often have and appreciate. Many children’s books from the eighteenth century instead emphasize the importance of virtuous behavior and the devastating consequences of vice through cautionary tales. Not until the nineteenth century...

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“Revere the Rock of Plymouth”: An American Relic

Like many of the nation’s most revered historical events, Thanksgiving has accumulated a lore that often makes  the lines between fact and fiction indecipherable.  Of particular note is the purported landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in December 1620. Although historians have recognized its dubious foundations for some time (after all, the first assertion...

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Tourism in Latin America : cases of success / Alexandre Panosso Netto, Luiz Gonzaga, Godoi Trigo, editors




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Century of the leisured masses : entertainment and the transformation of twentieth-century America / David George Surdam ; preface by Ken McCormick

Surdam, David G. (David George)




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Staging America : twenty-first-century dramatists / Christopher Bigsby

London : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2019




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Inside the Equal Access to Justice Act : environmental litigation and the crippling battle over America's lands, endangered species, and critical habitats / Lowell E. Baier

Baier, Lowell E., author




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American corrections : concepts and controversies / Barry A. Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, Christopher J. Hartney

Krisberg, Barry, author




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Policing a class society : the experience of American cities, 1865-1915 / Sidney L. Harring

Harring, Sidney L., 1947- author




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Hydropolitics: the Itaipu dam, sovereignty, and the engineering of modern South America / Christine Folch

Dewey Library - TK1527.F653 2019




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Superpower: one man's quest to transform American energy / Russell Gold

Dewey Library - HD9502.U52 S634 2019




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State Energy Transition: German and American Realities and Chinese Choices / Tong Zhu, Lei Wang

Online Resource




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Advanced energy design guide for small to medium office buildings: achieving zero energy / ASHRAE, The American Institute of Architects, Illuminating Engineering Society, U.S. Green Building Council, U.S. Department of Energy

Online Resource




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Energy follies: missteps, fiascos, and successes of America's energy policy / Robert R. Nordhaus, Sam Kalen

Dewey Library - HD9502.U52 N674 2018




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Energy, the modern state, and the American world system / George A. Gonzalez

Dewey Library - HD9502.A2 G656 2018




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The Idea of America

Democracy is an experiment sustained through debate; rights are a privilege earned through participation. Michael Hartoonian introduces The Idea of America.




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The Godfather of American Spying

Code names, dead drops, invisible ink, and secret ciphers were all part of the American Revolution. Historian Taylor Stoermer introduces Benjamin Tallmadge, George Washington’s chief intelligence officer.




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Painters and Paintings of the Early American South

Painters and Paintings of the Early American South is a new exhibit focusing on the interrelatedness of Southern artists and subjects. See it at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.




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American Traitor

Would Benedict Arnold be remembered as a hero if he had picked the winning side? Interpreter Scott Green shares the rise and demise of a brilliant strategist.




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African American Religion

When people from various regions of Africa were forcefully transported to the colonies, they brought nothing with them but the clothes on their backs and the beliefs of their hearts. This latter possession varied widely by region and tradition, but was to each a fundamental part of daily life. Historian Harvey Bakari describes the African […]




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The Early Music Festival: From England to America

The 2014 Early Music Festival promises to be a lively one. With instruments, scores, and performances of an 18th-century vintage, you’ll be surrounded by the sounds of another century. Enjoy this musical preview featuring Jane Hanson and Michael Monaco from the opera “Thomas and Sally.”



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Resilience in Tragedy: African American Lives

African American history is weighted with tragedy, but bringing the fullness of life to the stories of enslaved individuals is the mission of the African American History Program under the direction of Stephen Seals.




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Importance of Portraying African American History

Stephen Seals joins to discuss some of the powerful African American programming available during Black History Month and beyond in 2016. Hear some of his favorites and why it’s so important to tell the stories of half of the population of Williamsburg in the 18th century.




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Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 [electronic resource] / edited by Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen

New York : Routledge, 2007




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ACSM's health-related physical fitness assessment manual / American College of Sports Medicine




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ACSM's resource manual for guidelines for exercise testing and prescription / American College of Sports Medicine ; senior editor, David P. Swain ; section editors, Clinton A. Brawner ... [et al.]




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The Mekong Matters for America/America Matters for the Mekong

This report explores the trade, investment, business, diplomacy, security, education,and people-to-people connections between the United States and the five countries of mainland Southeast Asia referred to as the Mekong region. Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam are bound together and geographically defined by the Mekong River, which has historically provided a rich, natural bounty of fish, agricultural productivity, physical connectivity, and key environmental services to more than 60 million people living in the river basin. The Mekong’s importance has only grown as the region’s social, economic, and diplomatic ties export the river’s bounty to the rest of the world. As the region develops, urbanization, infrastructure development, and climate change—among other changes—are all impacting the river, its resources, and the millions who depend on the mighty Mekong.

This publication was produced in partnership with the Stimson Center Southeast Asia Program.




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Urban America reconsidered [electronic resource] : alternatives for governance and policy / David Imbroscio

Imbroscio, David L




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Beyond rust [electronic resource] : metropolitan Pittsburgh and the fate of industrial America / Allen Dieterich-Ward

Dieterich-Ward, Allen, author




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Breakthrough communities [electronic resource] : sustainability and justice in the next American metropolis / edited by M. Paloma Pavel




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God and karate on the Southside [electronic resource] : bridging differences, building American communities / Joseph E. Yi

Yi, Joseph, 1971-




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A new new deal [electronic resource] : how regional activism will reshape the American labor movement / Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds ; foreword by Harold Meyerson

Dean, Amy B., 1962-




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Organizing urban America [electronic resource] : secular and faith-based progressive movements / Heidi J. Swarts

Swarts, Heidi J




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Heart of the nation [electronic resource] : volunteering and America's civic spirit / John M. Bridgeland

Bridgeland, John M




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The other great migration [electronic resource] : the movement of rural African Americans to Houston, 1900-1941 / Bernadette Pruitt

Pruitt, Bernadette, 1965-




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Planning the American Indian reservation [electronic resource] : from theory to empowerment / Nicholas Christos Zaferatos ; foreword by Brian Cladoosby

Zaferatos, Nicholas C. (Nicholas Christos)




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Coming of political age [electronic resource] : American schools and the civic development of immigrant youth / Rebecca M. Callahan and Chandra L. Muller

Callahan, Rebecca M




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The revolution where you live [electronic resource] : stories from a 12,000-mile journey through a new America / Sarah van Gelder ; Foreword by Danny Glover

Van Gelder, Sarah, author




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National Traveling Exhibition Nature and the American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School

Date: 
11-10-2010

11-10-10

New-York Historical Society Shares the Treasure of Its Unsurpassed Collection of Hudson River School Paintings In the National Traveling Exhibition Nature and the American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School




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First Full Retrospective of the Sculpture of John Rogers, America’s Unique Artist-Entrepreneur

Date: 
2-18-2011

2-18-11 

The New-York Historical Society Organizes the First Full Retrospective of the Sculpture of John Rogers, America’s Unique Artist-Entrepreneur

Drawn from the Historical Society’s Unsurpassed Collection, John Rogers: American Stories Will Tour Throughout 2011




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Ron Chernow Awarded Annual American History Book Prize

Date: 
3-4-2011

3-4-11

New-York Historical Society Awards Ron Chernow Its Annual American History Book Prize Coveted Award and Title of American Historian Laureate to Be Presented at Annual Weekend with History Event, April 8, 2011




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Rethinking the Formative Years of American Art, the New-York Historical Society Presents the Exhibition Making American Taste

Date: 
6-24-2011

 

 

RETHINKING THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF AMERICAN ART, THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION MAKING AMERICAN TASTE: NARRATIVE ART FOR A NEW DEMOCRACY

Pathbreaking Exhibition Will Highlight the Superb Collection, as theTransformed Historical Society Reopens on November 11, 2011