American places encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-394)
Taking place - Peter Ginna -- - Cyberspace, U.S.A. - Edward L. Ayers -- - Pennsylvania Avenue : the Avenue of the Presidents - Paul Boller -- - A monument for Barre : memory in a Massachusetts town - t. H. Breen -- - Greensboro, North Carolina : a window on race in the American South - William H. Chafe -- - World War II Normandy : American cemetery and memorial - James C. Cobb -- - The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. - Robert Dallek -- - The Americanized Mannheim of 1945-1946 - David Brion Davis -- - Vassar College - Carl N. Degler -- - A fan's homage to Fenway : (or, Why we love it when they always break our hearts) - John Dermos -- - Finding history in Woodside, California - Paula S. Fass -- - Boston Common - David Hackett Fischer -- - Charleston's Battery and New Orleans's Jackson Square - William W. Freehling -- - Climbing Stone Mountain - Louis R. Harlan -- - Memphis, Tennessee : the rise and fall of Main Street - Kenneth t. Jackson -- - Illinois's Old State Capitol : a tale of two speeches - Robert W. Johannsen -- - "A - little journey" : Elbert Hubbard and the Roycroft Community at East Aurora, New York - Michael Kammen -- - San Juan Island, Washington : the "Pig War" and the vagaries of identity and history - David M. Kennedy -- - 1048 Fifth Avenue - Alice Kessler-Harris -- - Queens - William E. Leuchtenburg -- - Gettysburg - james M. McPherson -- - Monticello - Merrill D. Peterson -- - The Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood - Kevin Starr -- - The Polo Grounds - Jules Tygiel -- - Nassau Hall, Princeton, New Jersey - Sean Wilentz -- - Graceland - Joel Williamson -- - Montgomery - C. Vann Woodward -- - The Grand Canyon - Donald Worster -- - Sewanee : how to make a Yankee Southern : memories of the 1940s - Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Introduction, William Leuchtenburg. Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents, Paul Boller, Jr. A Monument for Barre: Memory in a Massachusetts Town, T.H. Breen. Greensboro, North Carolina: A Window on Race in the American South, William H. Chafe. World War II Normandy: American Cemetery and Memorial, James C. Cobb. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C., Robert Dallek. The Americanized Mannheim of 1945-1946, David Brion Davis. Vassar College, Carl N. Degler. A Fan's Homage to Fenway, John Demos. Finding History in Woodside, Californi