a film by Kunhardt Productions ; executive producers, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William R. Grant, Peter W. Kunhardt ; written by Henry Louis Gates. Jr. ; series producers, Graham Judd, Leslie D. Farrell ; a production of Kunhardt Productions, Inc. and Thirteen/ WNET New York.
ISBN
1415716943
Edition
Widescreen format.
Place of Publication
[Alexandria, Va.] : Hollywood, Calif
Publisher
PBS Home Video ; distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment,
Date of Publication
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally broadcast as a four-part television series in 2006.
Host: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; features Oprah Winfrey, Chris Tucker, Quincy Jones, Sara-Lawrence-Lightfoot, Mae Jemison, T.D. Jakes, Ben Carson, Whoopi Goldberg.
Contents
Listening to our past / producer and director, Jesse Sweet; editors, Eric Davis, Michael Weingrad -- The promise of freedom / producer and director, Leslie Asako Gladsjo ; editors, Joanna Kiernan, Geeta Gandbhr -- Searching for our names / producer and director, Leslie D. Farrell; editors, Merril Stern, Kathryn Moore -- Beyond the middle passage / producer and director, Graham Judd; editors, Kate Hirson, Stefan Knerrich.
Summary
A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
"The tax records here reproduced for this township [including Columbia], prior to its division in 1818 into East Hempfield and West Hempfield townships, cover the following years: 1751, 1756-59, 1763, 1769-73, 1775-81, 1783, 1785-90, 1792-93, 1796-1803, 1805-07, 1809-11, 1813-1818, Undated. On this microfilm, a circle in the upper left-hand corner of a frame indicates the beginning of a new document."
Geographical dictionary of North America and the West Indies
Responsibility
compiled from the most recent and authentic sources by Bishop Davenport.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
G. M'Dowell,
Date of Publication
1832.
Physical Description
471 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Notes
Corrections and additions p. 469-471.
Includes index of statistical tables (p. 459).
Contents
I.A general description of North America. -- II. A general description of the United States; the Declaration of Independence and constitution of the United States. -- III. A description of all the states, counties, cities, towns, villages, forts, seas, harbors, capes, rivers, lakes, canals, rail-roads, mounts, &c. connected with North America; with the extent, boundaries and natural productions of each state; the bearing and distance of remarkable places from each other and of each from the City of Washington, with the population according to the census of 1830. -- Containing likewise many tables relating to the commerce, population, revenue, debt, and various institutions of the United States.
