William E. Leuchtenburg - American Places: Encounters with History

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William E. Leuchtenburg - American Places: Encounters with History
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA | 2000-11-09 | ISBN: 019513026X | PDF | 416 pages | 20.55 MB


For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially historical places, hold a special fascination. Whether it is a battlefield or the home of a notable American, there is no question that we understand the past in a different and more immediate way when we encounter it \"on the ground.\"
In American Places, more than two dozen of America's most gifted historians write about their own 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 battlefied 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 \"ig War\" of San

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