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  • A Guide to Thomas Jefferson's Virginia

    Tour Thomas Jefferson's Virginia, from Monticello to the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond, with a guide that "mixes historical background with how-tos" ( Daily Press).Few prominent Americans are as associated with a place as Thomas Jefferson is with Virginia. The heart of "Jefferson Country" is his house and plantation at Monticello, but Jefferson traveled the breadth of his home state, from his ... Leer más

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  • New Haven in World War I

    Series series
    During World War I, New Haven was a hive of wartime activity. The city hummed with munition production from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, while food conservation campaigns, canning kitchens and book drives contributed to the war effort. Meanwhile, Walter Camp, father of American football, whipped recruits and city residents into shape with his fitness programs. The Knights of Columbus ... Leer más

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  • History Lover's Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County, A

    Series series History & Guide
    History is nurtured and treasured in the City of Alexandria and in neighboring South Fairfax County. A History Lover's Guide to Alexandria & South Fairfax County focuses on this special area along the Potomac River.Travel through history from Old Town to Mason's Neck and witness the practice of preservation as it continues to evolve today. Alexandria cares for the places essential to understanding ... Leer más

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  • Historic Treasures of New Haven

    Celebrating 375 Years of the Elm City

    For more than two hundred years, New Haven, Connecticut, has had a particular proclivity for marking the passage of time. Residents of the Elm City celebrate their heritage in historic fashion, and they have carefully preserved fascinating relics from their city's past in local museums. Examine the first commemorative medal made for New Haven's 200th anniversary in 1838, which set the standard for ... Leer más

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  • Was denkt das Denkmal?

    Eine Anthologie zur Denkmalkultur

    Wie wäre es, wenn die Geschichte eines Denkmals einmal aus dessen Sicht erzählt wird? Die AutorInnen dieser Anthologie wagen den Perspektivenwechsel und schildern, wie es Denkmälern im Wandel der Zeiten erging, hin- und hergerissen zwischen ursprünglichen Intentionen, Umdeutungen und Instrumentalisierungen. Mit tiefgründigem Humor begeben sie sich in den Kopf der Freiheitsstatue, lassen die ... Leer más

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  • Claims on the City

    Situated Narratives of the Urban

    Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels us to rethink our understanding of the urban. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the editors and contributors detail on-the-ground events and transformations of different cities embattled in social ... Leer más

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  • Historic Virginia

    A Tour of More Than 75 of the State's Top National Landmarks

    Historic Virginia: A Tour of the State’s Top 75 National Historic Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state's nationally recognized historic landmarks. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color photography of famous churches, the homes of Founding Fathers, and monuments of natural splendor amid ... Leer más

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  • Monument Culture

    International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World

    Edición de Laura A. Macaluso ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time of great social and political change.The book presents a broad view of the challenges facing individuals and society in making ... Leer más

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  • Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué

    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    The Amistad incident, one of the few successful ship revolts in the history of enslavement, has been discussed by historians for decades, even becoming the subject of a Steven Spielberg film in 1997, which brought the story to wide audiences. But, while historians have examined the Amistad case for its role in the long history of the Atlantic, the United States and slavery, there is an oil on ... Leer más

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  • The Public Artscape of New Haven

    Themes in the Creation of a City Image

    There are nearly 500 public works of art throughout New Haven, Connecticut--a city of 17 square miles with 130,000 residents. While other historic East Coast cities--Philadelphia, Providence, Boston--have been the subjects of book-length studies on the function and meaning of public art, New Haven (founded 1638) has largely been ignored.This comprehensive analysis provides an overview of the city ... Leer más

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  • Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

    Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture

    de Hugh Howard ...
    Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant statesman, Jefferson was all but unknown as an artist and an architect for nearly a century. ... Leer más

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  • A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut

    Series series History & Guide
    Hartford, Connecticut, was settled as an agrarian society with fertile fields and abundant crops at the confluence of the Connecticut and Little (later Park) Rivers by Reverend Thomas Hooker and his Puritan congregation. Navigation on the rivers quickly established the city as a center for commerce. Author Daniel Sterner delves into the history of Hartford with tours from Bushnell Park to Asylum ... Leer más

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