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Millennium evenings at the White House : honor the past, imagine the future
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- Summary
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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.
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- Creator
- presented by the White House Millennium Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sun Microsystems
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [Washington, D.C.] : White House Millennium Council, [1999]
- Physical Details
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- 7 videocassettes : sound, color ; 1/2 in
- OCLC
- ocm42904841
- "Poets laureate: the American voice in poetry"--Cassette label, tape 3.
- 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