American places : encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer /

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Other Authors: Meyer, Sheldon, Leuchtenburg, William E. 1922-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Table of 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.