| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [234]-242) and index. |
| Contents |
The evolving monument -- The Liberty Bell -- Mount Auburn Cemetery -- The Alamo -- Freedom Schooner Amistad -- Gettysburg National Military Park -- Hart Island -- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument -- Washington Monument -- Statue of Liberty -- Monument Avenue -- Adams Memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery -- General Grant National Memorial -- Shaw memorial -- Lincoln Memorial -- Balto, Central Park -- Chateau-Thierry Monument -- Tomb of the Unknowns (Tomb of the unknown soldier) -- Mount Rushmore -- Jefferson Memorial -- Remembering World War II -- World War II Memorial -- Nick Benson, stone carver -- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- One soldier's story -- AIDS Memorial Quilt -- Manzanar National Historic Site -- Korean War Veterans Memorial -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (FDR Memorial) -- The New York Times capsule -- Oklahoma City National Memorial -- The temporary memorials of 9/11 -- Irish Hunger Memorial -- The Heavenly City -- Texas A&M University Bonfire Memorial -- Memento Mori -- Luminous Manuscript, Center for Jewish History -- Beyond earth. |
| Subject |
Monuments -- United States.
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Monuments -- United States -- Pictorial works.
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Historic sites -- United States.
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Historic sites -- United States -- Pictorial works.
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United States -- History, Local.
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United States -- History, Local -- Pictorial works.
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Architecture and society -- United States.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781400065820 (acid-free paper) |
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1400065828 (acid-free paper) |
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