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  • Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century

    by Koji Lau-Ozawa, Victor Thompson, Meg Gaillard, Kathlyn Guttman, Tori Mason, Kate Sproul, Stephanie Sperling, David Brown, Philip Levy, Elizabeth Reetz, Katherine Hodge, Jeanne Moe, Erika Malo, Molly Boeka Cannon, Anna Cohen, Matthew Guebard, Sharlot Hart, Kristin Montaperto, Jessica Taylor, Ashley McCuistion, David Muraca, Tara Beresh, Jade Robison, Iraida Rodriguez, Thane Harpole ...
    In Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century, James F. Brooks and Jeremy M. Moss have collected essays from twenty-seven scholars and community members to illuminate archaeological sites like ancient “water courts” at Mound Key in Florida, the lost Black cemetery at Nashville Zoo, fur-trade-era Fort Michilimackinac, and Arizona’s Gila Bend Internment Camp. Each case offers readers an ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Branching Out

    The Public History of Trees

    by Leah S Glaser, Philip Levy ...
    Series series Public History in Historical Perspective
    Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tragedies. They can be the last living witness to important events or community stories. Trees can also be objects of preservation, sometimes as individuals, other times as stands or even ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Yard Birds

    The Lives and Times of America's Urban Chickens

    by Philip Levy ...
    In 2009, the New Yorker declared chickens the "it bird" and heralded "the return of the backyard chicken." This honor occurred as, a host of American cities were changing their laws to allow chickens in residents’ backyards. Philip Levy, a sometime chicken keeper himself, mixes cultural history with husbandry to chronicle the weird and wonderful story of Americans’ urban chickens. From the streets ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Permanent Resident

    Excavations and Explorations of George Washington's Life

    by Philip Levy ...
    Series series Early American Histories
    No figure in American history has generated more public interest or sustained more scholarly research around his various homes and habitations than has George Washington. The Permanent Resident is the first book to bring the principal archaeological sites of Washington's life together under one cover, revealing what they say individually and collectively about Washington’s life and career and how ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Where the Cherry Tree Grew

    The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington's Boyhood Home

    by Philip Levy ...
    A biography of Ferry Farm—George Washington's boyhood home—and its three centuries of American history."Levy's exploration yields clues to George's life there, such as whether there really was a cherry tree. . . . A wealth in deliberative detail to contemplate and relish." — Kirkus ReviewsIn 2002, Philip Levy arrived on the banks of Rappahannock River in Virginia to begin an archeological ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • George Washington Written Upon the Land

    Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape

    by Philip Levy ...
    George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia ... Read more

    Was $16.99 USD Now $9.89 USD

  • Cognition In Action

    by Alan F. Collins, Philip Levy, Peter E. Morris, Mary M. Smyth ...
    This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.; Each chapter of the book starts with an example and then uses this to introduce some aspect of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • George Washington's Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary America

    At Home in Revolutionary America

    by Robert F. Dalzell;Lee Baldwin Dalzell ...
    George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • New England Icons

    Shaker Villages, Saltboxes, Stone Walls and Steeples

    by Bruce Irving ...
    Connect with the original New England.We tend to think of icons as simple, graphic, stone or wooden objects without much depth or life, left overs from bygone eras. But Bruce Irving, former producer of the popular PBS show This Old House, will have none of that. In a collection of short essays, Irving taps into our collective consciousness by extolling the comforting sense of place we associate ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans

    Edited by Laura Kilcer VanHuss ...
    Series series Reading the American Landscape
    Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Salem's Witch House

    A Touchstone to Antiquity

    by John Goff ...
    A close-up look at this historic Massachusetts landmark, including photos and illustrations.Though Salem is located on Massachusetts's scenic North Shore, its history has not always been picturesque. The "Witch City," as it is internationally known, is home to numerous landmarks dedicated to the notorious trials of 1692.Of these, the Witch House is perhaps most significant—the former residence of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Haunted History of Louisiana Plantations

    by Cheryl H. White, W. Ryan Smith ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Stories of ghosts and strange happenings at these historic Southern homes—with photos included.Louisiana plantations evoke images of grandeur and elegance, but beyond the facade of stately homes are stories of hope and subjugation, tragedy and suffering, shame and perseverance and war and conquest.After sixteen workers axed most of the Houmas House's ancient oak trees, referred to as "the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus