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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In a collection of essays, the venerated television journalist celebrates our shared values, reminds us of what matters most in our great country, and shows us what patriotism looks like"-- Provided by publisher.
"'I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do.' At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on--and writing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Bulgarian
Description
In her search for the true origins of a haunting melody, the filmmaker travels to Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria. The trip is filled with humor, suspense, tragedy and surprise as each country's citizens passionately claim the song to be their own and can even furnish elaborate histories for its orgins.
Author
Publisher
IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had sunk deep roots in the United States. From America's beginning, Christians have often merged their religious faith with national identity. But what is Christian nationalism? How is it different from patriotism? Is it an honest quirk, or something more threatening? Paul D. Miller, a Christian scholar, political theorist, veteran, and former White House...
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Series
Publisher
Super Sandcastle, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about Presidents' Day and its traditions with Super Simple Presidents' Day activities. Then, explore ways you can celebrate this holiday by making a patriotic garland, a presidential guessing gamer, and more." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Boys of wartime volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1776 Boston, twelve-year-old Daniel Prescott enjoys assuming his father's role in taking care of his mother and sister, as well as his work as a spy and messenger for the American revolutionaries, but the pleasure ends when he witnesses the horrors ofwar firsthand, and learns that a trusted patriot is actually a British spy.
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful story about the mixture of pride and pain that one Black family finds in the American flag, and an invitation for each of us to choose how we relate to America, its history, and the flag that means so many things to so many people"-- Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Sent with her younger brother to Godøy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather after Germans bomb Norway in 1940, ten-year-old Merit longs to join her parents in the Resistance and when her aunt, a teacher, is taken away two years later, she resentseven more the Nazis' presence and her grandfather's refusal to oppose them. Includes historical facts and glossary.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States nd how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places...
Author
Series
Legends of the condor heroes volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A Snake Lies Waiting is the next in Jin Yong's high stakes, tension-filled epic Legends of the Condor Heroes series, where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus Huang's father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in the three trials to win the hand of his beloved. But now, along with his two...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"America, do you love me? A single question from a single child multiplies across the country with every page turn, inviting in more and more children of color--and their questions"-- Provided by publisher. Includes author's note about growing up as a brown girl, whose grandmother and great-grandmother spoke Louisiana Creole, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with her class every morning.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century. At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the idea of 'the nation,' in part because postmodernism...
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