Title & Author:

American places : encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer / edited by William E. Leuchtenburg.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Description:

xviii, 398 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-394).
Taking place / Peter Ginna -- Cyberspace, U.S.A. / Edward L. Ayers -- Pennsylvania Avenue : the Avenue of the Presidents / Paul Boller -- A monument for Barre : memory in a Massachusetts town / T.H. Breen -- Greensboro, North Carolina : a window on race in the American South / William H. Chafe -- World War II Normandy : American cemetery and memorial / James C. Cobb -- The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. / Robert Dallek -- The Americanized Mannheim of 1945-1946 / David Brion Davis -- Vassar College / Carl N. Degler -- A fan's homage to Fenway : (or, Why we love it when they always break our hearts) / John Demos -- Finding history in Woodside, California / Paula S. Fass -- Boston Common / David Hackett Fischer -- Charleston's Battery and New Orleans's Jackson Square / William W. Freehling -- Climbing Stone Mountain / Louis R. Harlan -- Memphis, Tennessee : the rise and fall of Main Street / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Illinois's Old State Capitol : a tale of two speeches / Robert W. Johannsen -- "A little journey" : Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Community at East Aurora, New York / Michael Kammen -- San Juan Island, Washington : the "Pig War" and the vagaries of identity and history / David M. Kennedy -- 1048 Fifth Avenue / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Queens / William E. Leuchtenburg -- Gettysburg / James M. McPherson -- Monticello / Merrill D. Peterson -- The Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood / Kevin Starr -- The Polo Grounds / Jules Tygiel -- Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey / Sean Wilentz -- Graceland / Joel Williamson -- Montgomery / C. Vann Woodward -- The Grand Canyon / Donald Worster -- Sewanee : how to make a Yankee Southern : memories of the 1940s / Bertram Wyatt-Brown.

Summary:

America's leading historians talk about the sites where the past comes alive for them.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

019513026X (acid-free paper)
9780195130263 (acid-free paper)
019515245X
9780195152456

Subject:

Meyer, Sheldon.
Meyer, Sheldon, 1926-2006.
Historic sites United States Anecdotes.
Historians United States Biography Anecdotes.
Lieux historiques États-Unis Anecdotes.
Historiens États-Unis Biographies Anecdotes.
15.85 history of America.
Historians.
Historic sites.
Travel.
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Historische Stätte
Topografie
Historische plaatsen.
Collectief geheugen.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Sites historiques États-Unis Anecdotes.
United States History, Local Anecdotes.
United States Description and travel Anecdotes.
États-Unis Histoire locale Anecdotes.
États-Unis Descriptions et voyages Anecdotes.
United States.
Descriptions et voyages Anecdotes.
Etats-Unis Histoire locale.
USA.

Form/genre:

Anecdotes
Festschriften.
Biographies.
Local history.
History (form)
Special publications (form)
Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Meyer, Sheldon.
Leuchtenburg, William E. (William Edward), 1922-2025.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222345
Call No.: E159 .A3857 2000
Status: Available

Location: Library main 222344
Call No.: E159 .A3857 2000
Status: Available