Author: Alan E. Hunter
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634992596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Petersen House, the Oldroyd Museum and the House Where Lincoln Died
Author: Alan E. Hunter
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634992596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher: America Through Time
ISBN: 9781634992596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Lincoln Museum and the House where Lincoln Died
Author: Stanley William McClure
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Lincoln Museum and the House where Lincoln Died, Washington, D.C.
Author: Stanley William McClure
Publisher:
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Category : Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Ford's Theatre and the House Where Lincoln Died
Author: Stanley William McClure
Publisher:
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Category : Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Blood on the Moon
Author: Edward Steers
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813191515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Blood on the Moon examines the evidence, myths, and lies surrounding the political assassination that dramatically altered the course of American history. Was John Wilkes Booth a crazed loner acting out of revenge, or was he the key player in a wide conspiracy aimed at removing the one man who had crushed the Confederacy's dream of independence? Edward Steers Jr. crafts an intimate, engaging narrative of the events leading to Lincoln's death and the political, judicial, and cultural aftermaths of his assassination.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813191515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Blood on the Moon examines the evidence, myths, and lies surrounding the political assassination that dramatically altered the course of American history. Was John Wilkes Booth a crazed loner acting out of revenge, or was he the key player in a wide conspiracy aimed at removing the one man who had crushed the Confederacy's dream of independence? Edward Steers Jr. crafts an intimate, engaging narrative of the events leading to Lincoln's death and the political, judicial, and cultural aftermaths of his assassination.
U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation
Author: Laura Schiavo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003817203
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation is the first collection to examine the history of museums in the United States through the lens of the political and ideological underpinnings at the heart of exhibitions, collecting, and programming. Including contributions from historians, art historians, anthropologists, academics, and museum professionals, the book argues that museums have always been embedded in the politics and culture of their time – whether that means a reification of hegemonic notions of race, gender, and progress or a challenge to those normative structures. Contributions probe the political nature of collection and interpretation as concept and practice, and museum work as both reflective of and contributing to the politics and circulation of power in different historical moments. As a whole, the volume provides detailed readings of museums that demonstrate the ways in which these trusted cultural institutions have intervened in shifting concepts of nation, community, indigeneity, race, citizenship, inclusion, identity, localism, and memory. U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation makes arguments about the historically and politically rooted nature of cultural production in museums that apply to institutions across the globe. It is essential reading for students and scholars of museum studies, public history, cultural history, art history, and memory.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003817203
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation is the first collection to examine the history of museums in the United States through the lens of the political and ideological underpinnings at the heart of exhibitions, collecting, and programming. Including contributions from historians, art historians, anthropologists, academics, and museum professionals, the book argues that museums have always been embedded in the politics and culture of their time – whether that means a reification of hegemonic notions of race, gender, and progress or a challenge to those normative structures. Contributions probe the political nature of collection and interpretation as concept and practice, and museum work as both reflective of and contributing to the politics and circulation of power in different historical moments. As a whole, the volume provides detailed readings of museums that demonstrate the ways in which these trusted cultural institutions have intervened in shifting concepts of nation, community, indigeneity, race, citizenship, inclusion, identity, localism, and memory. U.S. Museum Histories and the Politics of Interpretation makes arguments about the historically and politically rooted nature of cultural production in museums that apply to institutions across the globe. It is essential reading for students and scholars of museum studies, public history, cultural history, art history, and memory.
Shadowed Ground
Author: Kenneth E. Foote
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292756143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997 Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292756143
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997 Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
A Soldier's Story of the Siege of Vicksburg
Author: Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd
Publisher:
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Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
From Carl W. Schaefer.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
From Carl W. Schaefer.
The President Is Dead!
Author: Louis L. Picone
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510754547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
*Updated Edition* A fun, anecdote-filled, encyclopedic look at the circumstances surrounding the deaths of every president and a few “almost presidents,” such as Jefferson Davis. Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the most recent president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives, including stories of attempted grave robbings, reinterments, vandalism, conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths, and much more. The President Is Dead! is filled with never-before-told stories, including a suggestion by one prominent physician to resurrect George Washington from death by transfusing his body with lamb’s blood. You may have heard of a plot to rob Abraham Lincoln’s body from its grave site, but did you know that there was also attempts to steal Benjamin Harrison's and Andrew Jackson’s remains? The book also includes “Critical Death Information,” which prefaces each chapter, and a complete visitor’s guide to each grave site and death-related historical landmark. An “Almost Presidents” section includes chapters on John Hanson (first president under the Articles of Confederation), Sam Houston (former president of the Republic of Texas), David Rice Atchison (president for a day), and Jefferson Davis. Exhaustively researched, The President Is Dead! is richly layered with colorful facts and entertaining stories about how the presidents have passed. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510754547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
*Updated Edition* A fun, anecdote-filled, encyclopedic look at the circumstances surrounding the deaths of every president and a few “almost presidents,” such as Jefferson Davis. Packed with fun facts and presidential trivia, The President Is Dead! tells you everything you could possibly want to know about how our presidents, from George Washington to George H. W. Bush (who was the most recent president to die), met their ends, the circumstances of their deaths, the pomp of their funerals, and their public afterlives, including stories of attempted grave robbings, reinterments, vandalism, conspiracy theories surrounding their deaths, and much more. The President Is Dead! is filled with never-before-told stories, including a suggestion by one prominent physician to resurrect George Washington from death by transfusing his body with lamb’s blood. You may have heard of a plot to rob Abraham Lincoln’s body from its grave site, but did you know that there was also attempts to steal Benjamin Harrison's and Andrew Jackson’s remains? The book also includes “Critical Death Information,” which prefaces each chapter, and a complete visitor’s guide to each grave site and death-related historical landmark. An “Almost Presidents” section includes chapters on John Hanson (first president under the Articles of Confederation), Sam Houston (former president of the Republic of Texas), David Rice Atchison (president for a day), and Jefferson Davis. Exhaustively researched, The President Is Dead! is richly layered with colorful facts and entertaining stories about how the presidents have passed. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.