Myth, memory, and the making of the American landscape / edited by Paul A. Shackel.

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Myth, memory, and the making of the American landscape / edited by Paul A. Shackel.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Of saints and sinners : mythic landscapes of the Old and New South / Audrey J. Horning -- The woman movement : memorial to women's rights leaders and the perceived images of the women's movement / Courtney Workman -- The Third Battle of Manassas : power, identity, and the forgotten African-American past / Erika K. Martin Seibert -- Remembering a Japanese-American concentration camp at Manzanar National Historic Site / Janice L. Dubel -- Wounded Knee : the conflict of interpretation / Gail Brown -- Freeze-frame, September 17, 1862 : a preservation battle at Antietam National Battlefield Park / Martha Temkin -- The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial : redefining the role of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry / Paul A. Shackel -- Buried in the rose garden : levels of meaning at Arlington National Cemetery and the Robert E. Lee Memorial / Laurie Burgess -- Authenticity, legitimation, and twentieth-century tourism : the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Carriage Roads, Acadia National Park, Maine / Matthew M. Palus -- The birthplace of a chief : archaeology and meaning at George Washington Birthplace National Monument / Joy Beasley -- Nostalgia and tourism : Camden Yards in Baltimore / Erin Donovan -- Abraham Lincoln's birthplace cabin : the making of an American icon / Dwight T. Pitcaithley.

ISBN:

0813021049 (alk. paper)
9780813021041 (alk. paper)
9780813027180 (pbk.)
0813027187 (pbk.)

Subject:

Historic sites United States.
Monuments United States.
Memory Social aspects United States.
Myth Social aspects United States.
National characteristics, American.
Archaeology and history United States.
Monuments États-Unis.
Mythe Aspect social États-Unis.
Archéologie et histoire États-Unis.
Antiquities
Archaeology and history
Historic sites
Memory Social aspects
Monuments
Philosophy
Historische Landeskunde
Mythologie
Aufsatzsammlung
United States Antiquities.
United States History Philosophy.
États-Unis Antiquités.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History
Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Shackel, Paul A.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221905
Call No.: E159 .M97 2001
Status: Available

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