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Title:
Myth, memory, and the making of the American landscape / edited by Paul A. Shackel.
Publisher:
University Press of Florida,
Copyright Date:
c2001
Description:
xiii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Historic sites--United States.
Monuments--United States.
Memory--United States.--United States.
Myth--Social aspects--United States.
National characteristics, American.
Archaeology and history--United States.
United States--Antiquities.
United States--Philosophy.--Philosophy.
Other Authors:
Shackel, Paul A.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Of saints and sinners / Audrey J. Horning -- The woman movement / Courtney Workman -- The third battle of Manassas / Erika K. Martin Seibert -- Remembering a Japanese-American concentration camp at Manzanar national historic site / Janice L. Dubel -- Wounded knee / Gail Brown -- Freeze-frame, September 17, 1862 / Martha Temkin -- The Robert Gould Shaw memorial / Paul A. Shackel -- Buried in the rose garden / Laurie Burgess -- Authenticity, legitimation, and twentieth-century tourism / Matthew M. Palus -- The birthplace of a chief / Joy Beasley -- Nostalgia and tourism / Erin Donovan -- Abraham Lincoln's birthplace cabin / Dwight T. Pitcaithley.
ISBN:
9780813021041 (alk. paper)
0813021049 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)46808147
LCCN:
2001027596
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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