American Places (eBook, PDF)

Encounters with History
Redaktion: Leuchtenburg, William E.

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Produktbeschreibung

In American Places, more than two dozen of America's most gifted historians write about their encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear on a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway Park. Here James M. McPherson writes about the battlefield of Gettysburg, and how walking the ground of Pickett's Charge inspired one of his books. Kevin Starr visits the Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood and finds many of the flavors of California history there. Joel Williamson takes a bemused tour of Elvis Presley's Graceland, and David Kennedy tells the story of the "Pig War" on San Juan Island, where a spat between Britain and America over a speck of land in the Pacific Northwest helped determine the shape of the U.S. and Canada. William Freehling compares two places, Charleston's Battery and New Orleans' Jackson Square, showing how each reveals the different spirit of the society that created it. And Edward Ayers talks about spending time in Cyberspace, U.S.A. Other pieces include Robert Dallek on the FDR Memorial, David Hackett Fischer on the Boston Common, and William Leuchtenburg on his native borough of Queens. American Places celebrates the career of Sheldon Meyer, who over his years at Oxford University Press has published some of America's most distinguished historians, including many Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize winners, virtually all of whom have contributed to this volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198029892
• Artikelnr.: 38137598

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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