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First Friday Genealogy
Monthly brown bag discussion group with occasional speakers meets every first Friday from 12:00 to 2 p.m. Open to the public and anyone with an interest in genealogy or family history. Brought to you by The National Archives…
First Friday Genealogy
Monthly brown bag discussion group with occasional speakers meets every first Friday from 12:00 to 2 p.m. Open to the public and anyone with an interest in genealogy or family history. Brought to you by The National Archives…
First Friday Genealogy
Monthly brown bag discussion group with occasional speakers meets every first Friday from 12:00 to 2 p.m. Open to the public and anyone with an interest in genealogy or family history. Brought to you by The National Archives…
First Friday Genealogy
Monthly brown bag discussion group with occasional speakers meets every first Friday from 12:00 to 2 p.m. Open to the public and anyone with an interest in genealogy or family history. Brought to you by The National Archives…
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Student Resources In Context
"Thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of 800 magazines, over 10,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio…
Salem Press Reference
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Based on Greenhaven's "Opposing Viewpoints" series and supplemented with Infotrac materials.
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Includes AP Financial News, AP Top News, AP WorldStream, AP U.S. Politics & Government, AP 50 State Reports, UPI Security Industry, UPI Emerging Threats, UPI Business, UPI Entertainment, UPI Sports, UPI Top News, Arabia 2000, and more.
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Newsbank Special Reports
NewsBank's Special Reports focus on topics of current interest. They include content from sources throughout the world to provide a global perspective, current and background information, statistics, maps, images, websites, and suggested…
Kid's POWER Library *
Quickly find the best resources for children and students from Power Library, Pennsylvania's state run library resource center
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Lawrence Wright | The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
In conversation with Dick Polman, "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, and national political columnist at WHYY's Newsworks.org A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker , Lawrence Wright won the Pulitzer Prize for…
Mark Bowden | Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
In conversation with Bill Marimow, editor at large, The Philadelphia Inquirer “One of the most intense, visceral” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ) writers of our time, Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and Vanity Fair…
David Grann | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of Z , the “brilliant…impressively researched and crafted” ( Los Angeles Times ) nonfiction tale of the deadly search for a fabled Amazonian civilization. His…
Wendy Lesser | You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
“Consistently engaging, sly, witty, understated…and written with simple elegance” ( The New York Observer ), Wendy Lesser’s many essay collections, works of fiction, and edited volumes include The Pagoda in the Garden, Room for Doubt ,…
Leading Voices: Mo Gawdat | Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy*
In conversation with longtime broadcaster and journalist, Tracey Matisak The Vice President of Business Innovation Google’s [X], Mo Gawdat is a serial entrepreneur who has founded more than 20 businesses, started almost half of Google’s…
Kory Stamper | Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
A lexicographer for the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Kory Stamper discusses the subtleties of the English language in the venerable volume’s popular “Ask the Editor” video series. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the…
Chris Hayes | A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes is the titular host of MSNBC’s news and opinion show All In with Chris Hayes . Formerly a frequent fill-in for Rachel Maddow and the host of the weekend morning show Up with Chris Hayes , in 2013 he became the youngest…
Camille Paglia | Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“At once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant” ( The Washington Post ), Camille Paglia is the author of the 700-page seminal discourse on paganism, sex, and art, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily…