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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.
- Format:
- Government document
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- Millennium celebrations (Year 2000)--United States.
- Millennium celebrations (Year 2000).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : sound, color.
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : The Council, [1999].
- System Details:
- digital
- 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.
- 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 minutes)
- 5. The meaning of the millennium (102 minches) / Natalie Zemon Davis and Martin E. Marty
- 6. Women as citizens: vital voices through the century (118 minutes)
- 7. The perils of indifference: lessons from a violent century (113 minches) / Elie Wiesel.
- Notes:
- "Poets laureate: the American voice in poetry"--Cassette label, tape 3.
- Shipping list numbers: 2000-0004-E.
- Description based on VHS version record.
- Other Format:
- VHS version Millennium evenings at the White House
- OCLC:
- 42904841
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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