Ken Burns
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xix, 403 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (840 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor as the most prominent members of the most important family in history. Through their stories, PBS chronicles the history they helped to shape, from the Square Deal to the New Deal, San Juan Hill to the Western Front, to the founding of the United Nations.
Explores the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 503 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.
9) The address
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the challenges faced by students at a Vermont school as they memorize the Gettysburg Address.
12) Country music
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
"Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping...
13) Mark Twain
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xvi, 269 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
14) Jazz
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (ca. 19 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 612 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Description
"More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to divide us today. Now, continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed collaborations, the authors draw on dozens and dozens of interviews...
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Scientific genetics holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. The Gene: An Intimate History traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA. Based on the book by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even...
19) The dust bowl
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (750 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...