| Description |
xviii, 398 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-394). |
| Contents |
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 Dermos -- 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. |
| Subject |
Meyer, Sheldon.
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Historic sites -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Historians -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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United States -- History, Local -- Anecdotes.
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United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Meyer, Sheldon.
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Leuchtenburg, William E. (William Edward), 1922-
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| ISBN |
019513026X (acid-free paper) |
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