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  • History Lover's Guide to Alexandria and South Fairfax County, A

    by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    Series series History & Guide
    History is nurtured and treasured in the City of Alexandria and in neighboring South Fairfax County. A History Lover's Guide to Alexandria & South Fairfax County focuses on this special area along the Potomac River.Travel through history from Old Town to Mason's Neck and witness the practice of preservation as it continues to evolve today. Alexandria cares for the places essential to understanding ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guide to Thomas Jefferson's Virginia

    by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    Tour Thomas Jefferson's Virginia, from Monticello to the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond, with a guide that "mixes historical background with how-tos" ( Daily Press).Few prominent Americans are as associated with a place as Thomas Jefferson is with Virginia. The heart of "Jefferson Country" is his house and plantation at Monticello, but Jefferson traveled the breadth of his home state, from his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Public Artscape of New Haven

    Themes in the Creation of a City Image

    by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    There are nearly 500 public works of art throughout New Haven, Connecticut--a city of 17 square miles with 130,000 residents. While other historic East Coast cities--Philadelphia, Providence, Boston--have been the subjects of book-length studies on the function and meaning of public art, New Haven (founded 1638) has largely been ignored.This comprehensive analysis provides an overview of the city ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Historic Treasures of New Haven

    Celebrating 375 Years of the Elm City

    by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    For more than two hundred years, New Haven, Connecticut, has had a particular proclivity for marking the passage of time. Residents of the Elm City celebrate their heritage in historic fashion, and they have carefully preserved fascinating relics from their city's past in local museums. Examine the first commemorative medal made for New Haven's 200th anniversary in 1838, which set the standard for ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historic Virginia

    A Tour of More Than 75 of the State's Top National Landmarks

    by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    Historic Virginia: A Tour of the State’s Top 75 National Historic Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state's nationally recognized historic landmarks. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color photography of famous churches, the homes of Founding Fathers, and monuments of natural splendor amid ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Art of the Amistad and The Portrait of Cinqué

    by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    The Amistad incident, one of the few successful ship revolts in the history of enslavement, has been discussed by historians for decades, even becoming the subject of a Steven Spielberg film in 1997, which brought the story to wide audiences. But, while historians have examined the Amistad case for its role in the long history of the Atlantic, the United States and slavery, there is an oil on ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • New Haven in World War I

    by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    Series series
    During World War I, New Haven was a hive of wartime activity. The city hummed with munition production from the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, while food conservation campaigns, canning kitchens and book drives contributed to the war effort. Meanwhile, Walter Camp, father of American football, whipped recruits and city residents into shape with his fitness programs. The Knights of Columbus ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monument Culture

    International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World

    Edited by Laura A. Macaluso ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time of great social and political change.The book presents a broad view of the challenges facing individuals and society in making ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Claims on the City

    Situated Narratives of the Urban

    by Nisha Mathew, Rajarajeshwari Ashok, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra, Indivar Jonnalagadda, Dikshya Karki, Marin Nycklemoe, Mina Qiao, Sreya Sen, Swathi Shivanand, Richard Simpson0, Rubkwan Thammaboosadee1, C. Yamini Krishna3, Amy Phua Mei Yen5, Thaís R. S. de Sant'Ana6, Hui Lok Hang7, Laura A. Macaluso8, Lee Ann Timreck9, Elvin Xing Yifu0 ...
    Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels us to rethink our understanding of the urban. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the editors and contributors detail on-the-ground events and transformations of different cities embattled in social ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

    Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture

    by Hugh Howard ...
    Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant statesman, Jefferson was all but unknown as an artist and an architect for nearly a century. ... Read more

    $14.89 USD

  • A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut

    by Daniel Sterner ...
    Series series History & Guide
    Hartford, Connecticut, was settled as an agrarian society with fertile fields and abundant crops at the confluence of the Connecticut and Little (later Park) Rivers by Reverend Thomas Hooker and his Puritan congregation. Navigation on the rivers quickly established the city as a center for commerce. Author Daniel Sterner delves into the history of Hartford with tours from Bushnell Park to Asylum ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smashing Statues

    The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

    by Erin L. Thompson ...
    A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these ... Read more

    $11.69 USD