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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.
Author : Judith Dupré
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
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From the award-winning, bestselling author of Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.
Author : Owen J. Dwyer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781930066717
"Owen Dwyer and Derek Alderman examine civil rights memorials as cultural landscapes, offering the first book-length critical reading of the monuments, museums, parts, streets, and sites dedicated to the African-American struggle for civil rights and interpreting them is the context of the Movement's broader history and its current scene. In paying close attention to which stories, people, and places are remembered and which are forgotten, the authors present an engaging account of an unforgettable story."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Arthur Penrhyn STANLEY (Dean of Westminster.)
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Karen L. Cox
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 146966268X
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.
Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385444276
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Denise D. Meringolo
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1558499407
The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into the work of collecting and preserving the nation's natural and cultural resources. Yet it was not until the emergence of the education-oriented National Park Service history program in the 1920s and 1930s that public history found an institutional home. Even then, tensions between administrators in Washington and practitioners on the ground at National Parks, monuments, and museums continued to redefine the scope and substance of the field. The process of definition persists to this day as public historians establish a growing presence in major universities throughout the United States and abroad. Book jacket.
Author : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Publisher :
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Westminster Abbey
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Author : Benjamin Hanbury
Publisher :
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Congregationalism
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