American places : encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer /
America's leading historians talk about the sites where the past comes alive for them.
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Oxford ; New York :
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2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Demos
- 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.