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Title American places : encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer / edited by William E. Leuchtenburg
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 398 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
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
Summary Introduction, William Leuchtenburg. Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents, Paul Boller, Jr. 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, John Demos. Finding History in Woodside, Californi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-394)
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Subject Meyer, Sheldon.
SUBJECT Meyer, Sheldon fast
Subject Historic sites -- United States -- Anecdotes
Historians -- United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Historians
Historic sites
Travel
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte
Historische Stätte
Topografie
Historische plaatsen.
Collectief geheugen.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Historiens -- États-Unis -- Biographies -- Anecdotes.
Sites historiques -- États-Unis -- Anecdotes.
SUBJECT United States -- History, Local -- Anecdotes
United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140004
Subject United States
USA
Descriptions et voyages -- Anecdotes.
États-Unis -- Histoire locale -- Anecdotes.
Etats-Unis -- Histoire locale.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Biographies
Anecdotes
Local history
Festschriften.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Meyer, Sheldon.
Leuchtenburg, William E. (William Edward), 1922-
ISBN 9780198029892
0198029896