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Millennium evenings at the White House: honor the past, imagine the future

presented by The White House Millennium Council, The National Endowment for the Humanities, Sun Microsystems
Resource Type:
VHS Video
Publication:
[Washington, D.C.] : The Council, [1999]

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Summary:
A series of lectures and cultural showcases presented by the White House in 1998 and 1999 to highlight American creativity and inventiveness through ideas, art, and scientific discoveries.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The living past: commitments for the future (64 min.) / Bernard Bailyn
  • 2. Imagination and change: science in the next millennium (71 min.) / Stephen Hawking
  • 3. A celebration of poetry in American life (87 min.)
  • 4. Jazz, an expression of democracy (88 min.)
  • 5. The meaning of the millennium (102 min.) / Natalie Zemon Davis and Martin E. Marty
  • 6. Women as citizens: vital voices through the century (118 min.)
  • 7. The perils of indifference: lessons from a violent century (113 min.) / Elie Wiesel.
Contributors:
White House Millennium Council (U.S.)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Sun Microsystems
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Civilization
United States — Civilization
United States — Intellectual life
Millennium celebrations (Year 2000) — United States
Millennium celebrations (2000)
2000
Intellectual life
United States
System Details:
VHS format.
General Notes:
"Poets laureate: the American voice in poetry"--Cassette label, tape 3.
Shipping list no.: 2000-0004-E.
Physical Description:
7 videocassettes : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Physical Characteristics:
polyester; 1/2 in.; polychrome
Audio Characteristics:
analog; magnetic
Video Characteristics:
VHS
Call Numbers:
PREX 1.21:M 61/PKG./
SuDocs Numbers:
PREX 1.21:M 61/PKG.
Other Standard Numbers:
Government Printing Office Item Number: 0851-J-10
OCLC Numbers:
42904841