SuzyQ's Blog
It's About Time
The doomsday clock [videodisc]
Faster: the acceleration of just about everything by James Gleick
Galileo's pendulum: from the rhythm of time to the making of matter by Roger G. Newton
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Our Musical Past
All-time top 100 TV themes [sound recording]
Always in my heart [sound recording]: classic songs from World War II, volume two
Atlantic ultimate '50s R&B smashes! [sound recording]
Blues gods [sound recording]: essential blues
Classic African American gospel [sound recording] by from Smithsonian Folkways
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History on Film
America over there [videodisc]: the United States in World War I, 1917-18 by United States of America War Office, United States of America Navy Department
BBC history of World War II. Part one [videodisc]
The Edward R. Murrow collection [videodisc]
The lost JFK tapes [videodisc]: the assassination by National Geographic ; produced by Tom Jennings Productions for National Geographic Channel
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Real Time Travel
About time: cosmology, time and culture at the twilight of the Big Bang by Adam Frank
Breaking the time barrier: the race to build the first time machine by Jenny Randles
Chronos: how time shapes our universe by Etienne Klein ; translated by Glenn Burney
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Futuristic Fiction (Or "If You Liked the Hunger Games")
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
A canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
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Eyewitness History
The beauty and the sorrow: an intimate history of the First World War by Peter Englund ; translated by Peter Graves
Berlin diary: the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941 by William L. Shirer ; with a new foreword by Gordon A. Craig
Blue-eyed child of fortune: the Civil War letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw by edited by Russell Duncan
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History is Not Boring!
Check out some of these fascinating stories that you probably never learned in history class:
All the presidents' children: triumph and tragedy in the lives of America's first families by Doug Wead
American heroes: profiles of men and women who shaped early America by Edmund S. Morgan
American history revised: 200 startling facts that never made it into the textbooks by Seymour Morris
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What Life Was Like in the Past
The Antebellum Period by James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo
Daily life during the Reformation by James M. Anderson
Daily life in Anglo-Saxon England by Sally Crawford
Daily life in the age of Charlemagne by John J. Butt
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20 Songs About Time
Absolute Animals 1964-1968 [sound recording] by the Animals — When I was Young - Eric Burdon & The Animals
Chicago Transit Authority [sound recording] by Chicago — Does Anybody Really Know What Time it is? - Chicago
Inarticulate speech of the heart [sound recording] by Van Morrison — River of Time - Van Morrison
60's pop hits [sound recording] — Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
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Time Travel Fiction
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court by written by Mark Twain ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
From time to time: a novel by Jack Finney
The house on the strand by Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907-1989
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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Another Time, Another Place
Find out what life was like growing up in bygone days:
Big Russ and me: father and son: lessons of life by Tim Russert — South Buffalo, N.Y. in the 1950s
Defending Baltimore against enemy attack: a boyhood year during World War II by Charles Osgood — Baltimore in the 1940s
A girl named Zippy: growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel — Mooreland, Indiana in the 1960s
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Time Travel TV Series
Being Erica. Season one. Disc 1 [videodisc] — Erica Strange is sent back in time by her therapist, Dr. Tom, to deal with the regrets of her life.
Doctor Who. The complete first series, Discs 1 & 2 [videodisc] by 2 Entertain ; BBC — The Doctor and his companion Rose travel around the universe - and through time - to battle Daleks and other evil aliens.
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Time Travel to the Great Battles of the Civil War
The bonfire: the siege and burning of Atlanta by Marc Wortman
Chancellorsville, 1863: the souls of the brave by Ernest B. Furgurson
Dissonance: the turbulent days between Fort Sumter and Bull Run by David Detzer
Donnybrook: the Battle of Bull Run, 1861 by David Detzer
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In Old New York
Take a walk back in history to the New York City of the 1870s, '80s and '90s where you will encounter the Astors and Vanderbilts, Diamond Jim Brady, Boss Tweed, Stanford White, and Teddy Roosevelt:
American passage: the history of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato
The architect of desire: beauty and danger in the Stanford White family by Suzannah Lessard
The blizzard of '88 by Mary Cable
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Historical "What Ifs"
What if the Allied invasion of Europe on D-Day had failed? The Mayflower had not sailed? The Mongols had succeeded in conquering Europe? JFK hadn't been assassinated? Napoleon had invaded North America? The South had won the Civil War? Go back in time and reimagine history as it might have been with the following fascinating titles:
Almost America: from the colonists to Clinton: a 'what if' history of the U.S. by Steve Tally
Almost history: close calls, plan B's, and twists of fate in American history by Roger Bruns
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