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Action Plan for Voluntary Repatriation of Rwandan Refugees
in Records Concerning the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR), Box 4, Folder 3066 , 7 page(s)
White House Staff and Office Files - National Security Council - Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs - Schwartz, Eric - Rwanda II, 1994-1996
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in Records Concerning the Genocide in Rwanda in 1994, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR), Box 4, Folder 3066 , 7 page(s)
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White House Staff and Office Files - National Security Council - Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs - Schwartz, Eric - Rwanda II, 1994-1996
Date Written / Recorded
1994
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), Humanitarian aid, Government policy, Peacekeeping, Refugees, Repatriation, Post Genocide Rwanda, 1994-, Law, Politics & Policy, Diplomacy, Transitional Justice, Post Conflict Support, International Response, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Alien Enemy Detention Facility
in Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004 (RG85). Alien Enemy Detention Facility Films, ca. 1942 - ca. 1943, of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records; produced by United States. Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service (District of Columbia: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register), 21 mins
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in Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004 (RG85). Alien Enemy Detention Facility Films, ca. 1942 - ca. 1943, of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records; produced by United States. Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service (District of Columbia: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register), 21 mins
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Argyle R. Mackey, 1898-1968, United States. Department of Justice. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Bern Berard, fl. 1942
Date Published / Released
1943
Publisher
United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register
Speaker / Narrator
Bern Berard, fl. 1942
Topic / Theme
Internment Camps > Japanese-American Camps, Race discrimination, Forced migration and expulsion, Government policy, Propaganda, Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945, History, Politics & Policy, Conditions of Confinement, Germans, Italians, Japanese Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Ambassador Madeleine Albright to National Security Advisor re Options for Bosnia
written by Madeleine Albright, 1937-, in Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR) (14 April 1993), Box 4 (Langley, VA: United States. Central Intelligence Agency), 3 page(s)
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written by Madeleine Albright, 1937-, in Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR) (14 April 1993), Box 4 (Langley, VA: United States. Central Intelligence Agency), 3 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
14 April 1993, 1993
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Madeleine Albright, 1937-
Publisher
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Topic / Theme
Yugoslav Wars: Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats (1991-1995), Air raids, International relations, Government policy, Ethnic cleansing, Yugoslav Wars, 1992-1995, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Documentation of Crimes, International Response, Bosnia-Herzegovinians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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8: The Rise of the Military in American Society
written by Richard M. Abrams, 1932-; in America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006, originally published 2006), 80-91
This 2006 book examines the period 1941–2001 during which time the character of American life changed rapidly, culminating in the shattering of the liberal Democratic coalition. Revolutions in the areas of affluence, foreign policy, the military, business systems, racial relations, gender roles, sexual behavior...
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written by Richard M. Abrams, 1932-; in America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2006, originally published 2006), 80-91
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This 2006 book examines the period 1941–2001 during which time the character of American life changed rapidly, culminating in the shattering of the liberal Democratic coalition. Revolutions in the areas of affluence, foreign policy, the military, business systems, racial relations, gender roles, sexual behavior and attitudes, and disregard for privacy are discussed.
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Chapter
Author / Creator
Richard M. Abrams, 1932-
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Revolution and Protest context, Revolutions, Political causes, Social movements, Government policy, Armed forces, Cold War, 1945-1989, Sociology, Politics & Policy, History, Americans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2006 Cambridge University Press
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American Experience: 1964, Part 1, 1964: Interview with Jon Margolis, Author, The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, part 1 of 5
directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films and WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Part 1 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 15 mins
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning j...
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directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films and WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Part 1 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 15 mins
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time - Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time - Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan - and brings out from the shadows the actions of ordinary Americans whose frustrations, ambitions and anxieties began to turn the country onto a new and different course. This film is part 1 of an interview with Jon Margolis, author of The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the book on which the documentary is based.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: 1964
Person Discussed
Jon Margolis, fl. 1971, Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Government policy, Civil rights, Political demonstrations, Political commentary, John F. Kennedy, Assassination, Dallas, TX, November 22, 1963, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Vietnam, August 2, 1964, Political and Social Movements, Sociology, Politics & Policy, History, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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© 2014-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
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American Experience: 1964, Part 2, 1964: Interview with Todd Gitlin, Sociologist, part 2 of 2
directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films and WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Part 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 55 mins
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning j...
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directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films and WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Part 2 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 55 mins
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time - Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time - Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan - and brings out from the shadows the actions of ordinary Americans whose frustrations, ambitions and anxieties began to turn the country onto a new and different course. This film is part 2 of an interview with sociologist Todd Gitlin.
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Field of Study
American History
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: 1964
Person Discussed
Todd Gitlin, 1943-, Barry Goldwater, 1909-1998, Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911-1978, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Government policy, Politics, Social movements, Civil rights, Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965, Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Vietnam, August 2, 1964, Great Society, United States, 1964-1969, Political and Social Movements, Sociology, Politics & Policy, History, The Sixties (1960–1974), African Americans, Americans,...
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Government policy, Politics, Social movements, Civil rights, Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965, Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Vietnam, August 2, 1964, Great Society, United States, 1964-1969, Political and Social Movements, Sociology, Politics & Policy, History, The Sixties (1960–1974), African Americans, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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American Experience: 1964, Part 3, 1964: Interview with Jon Margolis, Author, The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, part 3 of 5
directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films and WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Part 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 58 mins
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning j...
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directed by Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017; produced by Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017 and Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films and WGBH Boston, in American Experience: 1964, Part 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2014), 58 mins
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time - Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the Kennedy assassination. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 by award-winning journalist Jon Margolis, this film follows some of the most prominent figures of the time - Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Barry Goldwater, Betty Friedan - and brings out from the shadows the actions of ordinary Americans whose frustrations, ambitions and anxieties began to turn the country onto a new and different course. This film is part 3 of an interview with Jon Margolis, author of The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the book on which the documentary is based.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Amanda Pollak, fl. 1992-2017, Susan Bellows, fl. 1989, Insignia Films, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Stephen Ives, fl. 1988-2017
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: 1964
Person Discussed
Jon Margolis, fl. 1971, Sonny Liston, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908-1973, Ella Josephine Baker, 1903-1986, Fannie Lou Hamer, 1918-1977, Betty Friedan, 1921-2006, Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Murder, Government policy, Student activism and activists, Popular culture, Women's rights, Feminism, Civil rights, Sociology, Politics & Policy, History, African Americans, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
© 2014-2017 WGBH Educational Foundation
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American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 3, Interview with Eric Foner, Historian, Columbia University,...
directed by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017; produced by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 49 mins
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raisin...
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directed by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017; produced by Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983 and Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, WGBH Boston; interview by Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, in American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Season 16, Episode 3 (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 2017), 49 mins
Description
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raising taxes to pay for social services, corruption, election of Ulysses S. Grant, violence and opposition to Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Kl...
In the tumultuous years after the Civil War (1863-77), America grappled with how to rebuild itself, how to successfully bring the South back into the Union and how to bring former slaves into the life of the country. Foner talks about expansion of industry, cotton economy, John R. Lynch elected to Congress, raising taxes to pay for social services, corruption, election of Ulysses S. Grant, violence and opposition to Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, Amos Akerman and efforts against the Klan, the Fifteenth Amendment, sharecropping and overproduction of cotton.
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Field of Study
Black Studies
Content Type
Interview
Contributor
Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983, Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017, WGBH Boston
Author / Creator
Elizabeth Deane, fl. 1983, Patricia Garcia-Rios, fl. 1992-2017
Date Published / Released
2004, 2017
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Series
American Experience: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Person Discussed
Eric Foner, 1943-, Amos T. Akerman, 1821-1880, Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1822-1885, John Roy Lynch, 1847-1939
Topic / Theme
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Agrarian economy, Political violence, Economic development, Social policy, Industrialization, Politics, United States. Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment Ratified, March 30, 1870, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, War and Violence, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Trade and Commerce, History, Politics & Policy, Reconstruction (1866–1876), Am...
Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Agrarian economy, Political violence, Economic development, Social policy, Industrialization, Politics, United States. Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment Ratified, March 30, 1870, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, War and Violence, Race and Gender, Political and Social Movements, Trade and Commerce, History, Politics & Policy, Reconstruction (1866–1876), Americans, African Americans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Amisk
directed by Alanis Obomsawin, 1932-; produced by Alanis Obomsawin, 1932-, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2015), 40 mins
A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.
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directed by Alanis Obomsawin, 1932-; produced by Alanis Obomsawin, 1932-, National Film Board of Canada (Montréal, QC: National Film Board of Canada, 2015), 40 mins
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A performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Alanis Obomsawin, 1932-, National Film Board of Canada
Author / Creator
Alanis Obomsawin, 1932-
Date Published / Released
1977, 2015
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Speaker / Narrator
Alanis Obomsawin, 1932-
Topic / Theme
Global Indigenous Perspectives, Land use, Social activism and activists, Government policy, Ecology, Cree, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2015 by National Film Board of Canada
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Anthony Lake to President Clinton re Bosnian End-Game Strategy
written by Anthony Lake, 1939-, in Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR) (25 August 1993), Box 8 (Langley, VA: United States. Central Intelligence Agency), 3 page(s)
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written by Anthony Lake, 1939-, in Bosnia, Intelligence, and the Clinton Presidency, of William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum (Little Rock, AR) (25 August 1993), Box 8 (Langley, VA: United States. Central Intelligence Agency), 3 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
25 August 1993, 1993
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Anthony Lake, 1939-
Publisher
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Topic / Theme
Yugoslav Wars: Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats (1991-1995), Peacekeeping, Negotiation in government, International relations, Government policy, Yugoslav Wars, 1992-1995, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Documentation of Crimes, International Response, Croatians, Serbians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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