Ken Burns
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Language
English
Description
This summer, Random House Audio, OverDrive and First Book partnered to produce a “community-sourced” audiobook.
This project, dubbed Lend Your Voice, asked hundreds of amateur narrators to add their voices to a recording of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz during one hot weekend in June during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
All of the narrators did a great job—most nailed it in one take and wanted to read...
Author
Series
Publisher
Liberty Street
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
TIME presents The Roosevelts: The American Family That Changed the World. The editors at TIME compiled intimate portraits on the three Roosevelts who shaped our future: Teddy, Franklin and Eleanor.
Highlights include:
A foreword by Ken Burns, director of the PBS film The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Doris Kearns Goodwin tells TIME how FDR became the leader we needed during the 20th century's greatest crisis
Lavish ...
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Author
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The in-depth and intimate story of one of the most important African Americans to live in the first half of the 20th century. Tells the story of Jack Johnson, who was the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports - Heavyweight Campion of the World. Includes his struggles in and out of the ring and his desire to live his life as a free man.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of a tiny school in Putney Vermont, the Greenwood School, where each year the students are encouraged to memorize, practice and recite the Gettysburg Address. In its exploration of the Greenwood School, the film also unlocks the history, context and importance of President Lincoln's most powerful address. The Greenwood School students, boys ages 11-17, all face a range of complex learning differences that make their personal,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Until the arrival of European and American settlers in the late nineteenth century, the southern Plains of the United States were predominantly grasslands, the home and hunting grounds of many Native American tribes and the range of untold millions of bison. It was seldom used for farming. Bitterly cold winters, hot summers, high winds and especially low, unreliable precipitation made it unsuitable for standard agriculture. But at the start of the...
11) The Adventure
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
As rhythm and blues and rock ’n’ roll erode jazz’ audience further, the music nonetheless enjoys a time of great creativity. Free-jazz challenges all the jazz conventions, provoking a debate about the genre’s definition that continues to this day.
13) The People
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The American realizes that 'Progress is God.' The destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent -- to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean… to change darkness into light and confirm the destiny of the human race… Divine task! Immortal mission! The pioneer army perpetually strikes to the front. Empire plants itself upon the trails. William GilpinBy 1821, no one knew who would control the West’s seemingly infinite spaces,...
15) Risk
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Jazz, the official symbol of American democracy abroad, splinters at home into different camps: white and black, cool and hot, East and West, traditional and modern. Miles Davis becomes the most influential musician of his generation.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
There are all kinds of people on earth that you will meet some day… They will be looking for a certain stone. They will be people who do not get tired, but who will keep pushing forward, going, going all the time… These people do not follow the way of our great-grandfather. They follow another way. They will travel everywhere, looking for this stone which our great-grandfather put on the earth in many places. Sweet MedicineOn the morning on January...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
“Americans aren't wrong in seeing the West as a land of the future, a land in which astonishing things are possible. What they often are wrong about is that there's no price to be paid for that, that everybody can succeed, or that even what succeeds is necessarily the best for all concerned. The West is much more complicated than that." - Richard WhiteBy 1877, the American conquest of the West was nearly complete. For every Indian in the West, there...
19) Ghost Dance
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
By 1887, the West was changing faster than ever before. Americans were moved by the same impulses that had always moved them, to better their own lives and transform the region in the process. Now their numbers soared, and they brought with them the tools of the new industrial age.Mining still lured people to the West from every corner of the globe, but it was a full-scale industry now. And the cities it created seemed little different from the grimy...
20) American Buffalo
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The dramatic story of America’s national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world––and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.