Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. White House Millennium Council (U.S.)
2. National Endowment for the Humanities.
3. Sun Microsystems.

Description

1. 7 videocassettes : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Millennium celebrations (Year 2000) > United States
2. United States > Intellectual life
3. United States > Civilization
4. Civilization

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. *UGS-1369

Note

1. "Poets laureate: the American voice in poetry"--Cassette label, tape 3.
2. Shipping list no.: 2000-0004-E.

System details (note)

1. VHS format.

Title

1. Millennium evenings at the White House [videorecording] : honor the past, imagine the future / presented by The White House Millennium Council, The National Endowment for the Humanities, Sun Microsystems.

Imprint

1. [Washington, D.C.] : The Council, [1999]

System details

1. VHS format.

Added author

1. White House Millennium Council (U.S.)
2. National Endowment for the Humanities.
3. Sun Microsystems.

Gpo item no.

1. 0851-J-10

Sudoc no.

1. PREX 1.21:M 61/PKG.

Research call number

1. *UGS-1369 [Video]