Book Description
The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in,the United States,.
Author : Roger C. Echo-Hawk
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in,the United States,.
Author : Summers
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1681919532
Battlefields see many deaths. Cemeteries are resting places for the dead. In this title, explore some the world's most haunted battlefields and cemeteries and the stories of the spooks who call them home.
Author : Edward Tabor Linenthal
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252061714
"Examines how different groups of Americans have competed to control, define, and own cherished national stories relating to events at four battlefields."--Amazon.com.
Author : Mark Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780788402609
Lists over 22,400 burial sites where US soldiers were buried during the Civil War and Indian Wars.
Author : Alix Wood
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1482459116
Even today, more than 150 years after the Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War, visitors to the battleground report hearing gunfire and smelling gun smoke. Others have heard battle cries. In every case, there is no convincing argument about why these things occurredexcept that Antietam is haunted! Readers of this thrilling volume, full of superb, striking photographs, can decide if they believe in ghosts as they pay a visit to some famous and infamous battlefields around the globe. Theyll learn about the historic conflicts that took place at each that may have led to their haunted status.
Author : C. Jacob Butera
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473889995
“This useful work will appeal to a wide audience, from military buffs to historically minded tourists (and their guides), to students and scholars.” —Choice Greece was the scene of some of the most evocative and decisive battles in the ancient world. This volume brings together the ancient evidence and modern scholarship on twenty battlefields throughout Greece. It is a handy resource for visitors of every level of experience, from the member of a guided tour to the veteran military historian. The introductory chapter outlines some of the most pressing and interesting issues in the study of Ancient Greek battles and battlefields and offers a crash course on ancient warfare. Twenty lively chapters explore battlefields selected for both their historical importance and their inspiring sites. In addition to accessible overviews of each battle, this book provides all the information needed for an intellectually and aesthetically rewarding visit, including transport and travel details, museum overviews, and further reading.
Author : Donald C Pfanz
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0809336464
Many books discuss in great detail what happened during Civil War battles. This is one of the few that investigate what happened to the remains of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Where Valor Proudly Sleeps explores a battle’s immediate and long-term aftermath by focusing on Fredericksburg National Cemetery, one of the largest cemeteries created by the U.S. government after the Civil War. Pfanz shows how legislation created the National Cemetery System and describes how the Burial Corps identified, collected, and interred soldier remains as well as how veterans, their wives, and their children also came to rest in national cemeteries. By sharing the stories of the Fredericksburg National Cemetery, its workers, and those buried there, Pfanz explains how the cemetery evolved into its current form, a place of beauty and reflection.
Author : J. Christian Spielvogel
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0817317759
Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance. The National Park Service (NPS) is known for its role in the preservation of public sites deemed to have historic, cultural, and natural significance. In Interpreting Sacred Ground, J. Christian Spielvogel studies the NPS’s secondary role as an interpreter or creator of meaning at such sites, specifically Gettysburg National Military Park, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, and Cold Harbor Visitor Center. Spielvogel studies in detail the museums, films, publications, tours, signage, and other media at these sites, and he studies and analyzes how they shape the meanings that visitors are invited to construct. Though the NPS began developing interpretive exhibits in the 1990s that highlighted slavery and emancipation as central facets to understanding the war, Spielvogel argues that the NPS in some instances preserves outmoded narratives of white reconciliation and heroic masculinity, obscuring the race-related causes and consequences of the war as well as the war’s savagery. The challenges the NPS faces in addressing these issues are many, from avoiding unbalanced criticism of either the Union or the Confederacy, to foregrounding race and violence as central issues, preserving clear and accurate renderingsof battlefield movements and strategies, and contending with the various public constituencies with their own interpretive stakes in the battle for public memory. Spielvogel concludes by arguing for the National Park Service’s crucial role as a critical voice in shaping twentieth-first-century Civil War public memory and highlights the issues the agency faces as it strives to maintain historical integrity while contending with antiquated renderings of the past.
Author : Thomas H. Conner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0813176336
"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one which gave him birth in paying tribute to his memory, and the kindly hands which so often come to spread flowers upon his earthly coverlet express in their gentle task a personal affection."—General John J. Pershing To remember and honor the memory of the American soldiers who fought and died in foreign wars during the past hundred years, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established. Since the agency was founded in 1923, its sole purpose has been to commemorate the soldiers' service and the causes for which their lives were given. The twenty-five overseas cemeteries honoring 139,000 combat dead and the memorials honoring the 60,314 fallen soldiers with no known graves are among the most beautiful and meticulously maintained shrines in the world. In the first comprehensive study of the ABMC, Thomas H. Conner traces how the agency came to be created by Congress in the aftermath of World War I, how the cemeteries and monuments the agency built were designed and their locations chosen, and how the commemorative sites have become important "outposts of remembrance" on foreign soil. War and Remembrance powerfully demonstrates that these monuments—living sites that embody the role Americans played in the defense of freedom far from their own shores—assist in understanding the interconnections of memory and history and serve as an inspiration to later generations.
Author : Clarence Raymond Geier
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1603442073
The recent work of anthropologists, historians, and historical archaeologists has changed the very essence of military history. While once preoccupied with great battles and the generals who commanded the armies and employed the tactics, military history has begun to emphasize the importance of the “common man” for interpreting events. As a result, military historians have begun to see military forces and the people serving in them from different perspectives. The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites has encouraged efforts to understand armies as human communities and to address the lives of those who composed them. Tying a group of combatants to the successes and failures of their military commanders leads to a failure to understand such groups as distinct social units and, in some instances, self-supporting societies: structured around a defined social and political hierarchy; regulated by law; needing to be supplied and nurtured; and often at odds with the human community whose lands they occupied, be they those of friend or foe. The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites will afford students, professionals dealing with military sites, and the interested public examples of the latest techniques and proven field methods to aid understanding and conservation of these vital pieces of the world’s heritage.