American Places is a tribute to Sheldon Meyer's 40 year career as histroy editor at Oxford University Press. Included in this book are more than two dozen written contributions by America's most gifted historians commenting about their own encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear an a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway park.
American Places is a tribute to Sheldon Meyer's 40 year career as histroy editor at Oxford University Press. Included in this book are more than two dozen written contributions by America's most gifted historians commenting about their own encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear an a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway park.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
William E. Leuchtenburg is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has served as president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. His books include The FDR Years and Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940, winner of the Bancroft and Francis Parkman Prizes.
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Introduction Cyberspace, U.S.A. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents A Monument for Barre: Memory in a Massachusetts Town Greensboro, North Carolina: A Window on Race in the American South World War II Normandy: American Cemetery and Memorial The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. The Americanized Mannheim of 1945-1946 Vassar College A Fan's Homage to Fenway Finding History in Woodside, California Boston Common Charleston Climbing Stone Mountain Memphis, Tennessee Illinois' Old State Capitol: A Tale of Two Speeches "A Little Journey": Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Community at East Aurora, New York San Juan Island, Washington 1048 Fifth Avenue Queens Gettysburg Monticello The Musso and Frank Grill in Hollywood The Polo Ground Graceland Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey Montgomery The Grand Canyon Sewanee - How to Make a Yankee Southern: Memories of the 1940s
Introduction Cyberspace, U.S.A. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents A Monument for Barre: Memory in a Massachusetts Town Greensboro, North Carolina: A Window on Race in the American South World War II Normandy: American Cemetery and Memorial The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. The Americanized Mannheim of 1945-1946 Vassar College A Fan's Homage to Fenway Finding History in Woodside, California Boston Common Charleston Climbing Stone Mountain Memphis, Tennessee Illinois' Old State Capitol: A Tale of Two Speeches "A Little Journey": Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Community at East Aurora, New York San Juan Island, Washington 1048 Fifth Avenue Queens Gettysburg Monticello The Musso and Frank Grill in Hollywood The Polo Ground Graceland Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey Montgomery The Grand Canyon Sewanee - How to Make a Yankee Southern: Memories of the 1940s
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