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Valley Forge

Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041735
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Valley Forge written by Lorett Treese and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. Here, amid the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, visitors can pass through the house which served as Washington's Headquarters during the famous winter encampment of 1777-1778. Others picnic and jog in the huge park, complete with monuments, recreated log huts, and modern visitor center, all built to pay tribute to the Valley Forge story. In this lively book, Lorett Treese shows how Valley Forge evolved into the tourist mecca that it is today. In the process, she uses Valley Forge as a means for understanding how Americans view their own past. Treese explores the origins of popular images associated with Valley Forge, such as George Washington kneeling in the snow to seek divine assistance. She places Valley Forge in the context of the historic preservation movement as the site became Pennsylvania's first state park in 1893. She studies its "Era of Monuments" and the movement to "restore" Valley Forge in the spirit of Rockefeller's enormously popular colonial Williamsburg. Treese describes a Valley Forge fraught with controversy over the appropriate appearance and use of a place so revered. One such controversy, the "hot dog war," a brief but intense battle over concession stands, was spawned by Americans' changing perceptions of how a national park was to be used. The volatile Vietnam era prompted the state park commission to establish its "Subcommittee on Sex, Hippies, and Whiskey Swillers" to investigate park regulation infractions. Even today, people differ over exactly what happened at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778. The modern visitor sees the remains of over a century of commemoration, competition, and contention. The result, Treese shows, is a historic site that may reveal more about succeeding history than about Washington's army. This book will give its readers a new way to look at Valley Forge--and all historic sites.

The Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge

Author : William Herbert Burk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge written by William Herbert Burk and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Washington Window in the Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge

Author : William Herbert Burk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Washington Window in the Washington Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge written by William Herbert Burk and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Washington Memorial Chapel

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book The Washington Memorial Chapel written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Organist and Choirmaster

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organist and Choirmaster written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Making a Museum

Author : William Herbert Burk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Making a Museum written by William Herbert Burk and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Martha Washington Log Cabin Cook Book, Valley Forge

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Martha Washington Log Cabin Cook Book, Valley Forge written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington's Army

Author : Cosimo Sgarlata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813056401
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Historical Archaeology of the Revolutionary War Encampments of Washington's Army written by Cosimo Sgarlata and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents recent archaeological and ethnohistorical research on the encampments, trails, and support structures of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. These sites illuminate the daily lives of soldiers, officers, and camp followers away from the more well-known military campaigns and battles. The research featured here includes previously unpublished findings from the winter encampments at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, as well as work from sites in Redding, Connecticut, and Morristown, New Jersey. Topics range from excavations of a special dining cabin constructed for General George Washington to ballistic analysis of a target range established by General von Steuben. Contributors use experimental archaeology to learn how soldiers constructed their log hut quarters, and they reconstruct Rochambeau's marching route through Connecticut on his way to help Washington defeat the British at Yorktown. They also describe the underrecognized roles of African descendants, Native peoples, and women who lived and worked at the camps. Showing how archaeology can contribute insights into the American Revolution beyond what historical records convey, this volume calls for protection of and further research into non-conflict sites that were crucial to this formative struggle in the history of the United States. Contributors: Cosimo Sgarlata - Joseph Balicki - Joseph R. Blondino - Douglas Campana - Wade P. Catts - Daniel Cruson - Mathew Grubel - Mary Harper - Diane Hassan - David G. Orr - Julia Steele - Laurie Weinstein

The Washington Memorial Chapel,Valley Forge, 1939

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book The Washington Memorial Chapel,Valley Forge, 1939 written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Valley Forge Revolutionary Encampment Commission of the State of New Jersey

Author : New Jersey. Valley Forge revolutionary encampment commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Valley Forge Revolutionary Encampment Commission of the State of New Jersey written by New Jersey. Valley Forge revolutionary encampment commission and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire

Author : Steven Trout
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700629343
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire written by Steven Trout and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great white angel spreading her wings across the Moreno Valley: this is how one visitor described the memorial standing atop a windswept prominence in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Taos, New Mexico. A de-facto national Vietnam veterans memorial, built by one family more than a decade before the Wall in Washington, DC, and without aid or recognition from the US government, the chapel at Angel Fire is a testament to one young American’s sacrifice—but also to the profound determination of his family to find meaning in their loss. In The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire, Steven Trout tells the story of Marine Lieutenant David Westphall, who was killed near Con Thien on May 22, 1968, and of the Westphall family’s subsequent struggle to create and maintain a one-of-a-kind memorial chapel dedicated to the memory of all Americans lost in the Vietnam War and to the cause of world peace. Focused primarily on a life lost amid our nation’s most controversial conflict and on the Westphalls’ desperate battle to keep their chapel open between 1971 and 1982, the book’s brisk and moving narrative traces the memorial’s evolution from a personal act of family remembrance to its emergence as an iconic pilgrimage destination for thousands of Vietnam veterans. Documenting the chapel’s shifting messages over time, which include a momentary (and controversial) recognition of the dead on both sides of the war, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Angel Fire spotlights one American soldier’s tragic story and the monument to hope and peace that it inspired.

How to Read a Moment

Author : Mathias Nilges
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810143445
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Moment written by Mathias Nilges and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Read a Moment, Mathias Nilges shows that time is inseparable from the stories we tell about it, demonstrating that the contemporary American novel offers new ways to make sense of the temporality that governs our present. “Time is a thing that grows scarcer every day,” observes one of Don DeLillo’s characters. “The future is gone,” The Baffler argues. “Where’s my hoverboard!?” a meme demands. Contemporary capitalism, a system that insists that everything happen at once, creates problems for social thought and narrative alike. After all, how does one tell the time of instantaneity? In this moment of on-demand service and instant trading, it has become difficult to imagine the future. The novel emerged as the art form of a rapidly changing modern world, a way of telling time in its progress. Nilges argues that this historical mission is renewed today through works that understand contemporaneity as a form of time shaping that props up our material world and cultural imagination. But the contemporary American novel does not simply associate our present with a crisis of futurity. Through analyses of works by authors such as DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Charles Yu, and Colson Whitehead, Nilges illustrates that the novel presents ways to make sense of the temporality that controls our purportedly fully contemporary world. In so doing, the novel recovers a sense of possibility and hope, forwarding a dazzling argument for its own importance today.

The American Magazine of Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Magazine of Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lincoln on the Verge

Author : Ted Widmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476739455
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln on the Verge written by Ted Widmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE “A Lincoln classic...superb.” —The Washington Post “A book for our time.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America’s greatest president discovering his own strength to save the Republic. As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration—an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent. Lincoln on the Verge charts these pivotal thirteen days of travel, as Lincoln discovers his power, speaks directly to the public, and sees his country up close. Drawing on new research, this riveting account reveals the president-elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, as he foils an assassination attempt, forges an unbreakable bond with the American people, and overcomes formidable obstacles in order to take his oath of office.

This Far by Faith

Author : David R. Contosta
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271052449
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book This Far by Faith written by David R. Contosta and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays tracing the history of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, with emphasis on the greater Philadelphia area. Includes discussions of the diversity of practice and belief within the church, and between the church and the wider national culture"--Provided by publisher.

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death (Annotated)

Author : Patrick Henry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death (Annotated) written by Patrick Henry and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, ..

George Washington and the American Military Tradition

Author : Don Higginbotham
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820324000
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book George Washington and the American Military Tradition written by Don Higginbotham and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In George Washington and the American Military Tradition, Don Higginbotham investigates the interplay of militiaman and professional soldier, of soldier and legislator, that shaped George Washington’s military career and ultimately fostered the victory that brought independence to our nation. Higginbotham then explores the legacy of Washington’s success, revealing that the crucial blending of civil and military concerns characteristic of the Revolution has been variously regarded and only seldom repeated by later generations of American soldiers. Washington’s training, between 1753 and 1755, included frontier command in the Virginia militia, adjunct service to the British regulars during the French and Indian War, and increasing civil service in the Virginia House of Burgesses and Continental Congress. The result of this combination of pursuits was Washington’s concern for the citizen behind the soldier, his appreciation of both frontier tactics and professional discipline, and his sensitivity to political conflict and consensus in thirteen colonies in forming a new, united nation. When, in 1775, Washington accepted command of the Continental Army from the Continental Congress, he possessed political and military experience that enabled him, by 1783, to translate the Declaration of Independence into victory over the British. Yet, Higginbotham notes, the legacy of Washington’s success has sometimes been overlooked by generals concerned with professional training and a permanent military establishment, and therefore apt to revere foreign heros such as Jomini, Napoleon, and Bismarck more than Washington. Other leaders, most notably the World War II chief of staff, George Marshall, have recognized and implemented Washington’s unique understanding of civil and military coordination. In times almost wholly dominated by a military agenda, Washington’s and Marshall’s steady subordination of soldier to citizen, of strategy to legislation, recalls the careful consensus of thirteen colonies in 1776.