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  • Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century

    In Public Archaeology for the Twenty-First Century, James F. Brooks and Jeremy M. Moss have collected essays from twenty-seven scholars and community members to illuminate archaeological sites like ancient “water courts” at Mound Key in Florida, the lost Black cemetery at Nashville Zoo, fur-trade-era Fort Michilimackinac, and Arizona’s Gila Bend Internment Camp. Each case offers readers an ... Leer más

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  • Branching Out

    The Public History of Trees

    Series series Public History in Historical Perspective
    Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tragedies. They can be the last living witness to important events or community stories. Trees can also be objects of preservation, sometimes as individuals, other times as stands or even ... Leer más

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  • Yard Birds

    The Lives and Times of America's Urban Chickens

    de Philip Levy ...
    In 2009, the New Yorker declared chickens the "it bird" and heralded "the return of the backyard chicken." This honor occurred as, a host of American cities were changing their laws to allow chickens in residents’ backyards. Philip Levy, a sometime chicken keeper himself, mixes cultural history with husbandry to chronicle the weird and wonderful story of Americans’ urban chickens. From the streets ... Leer más

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  • The Permanent Resident

    Excavations and Explorations of George Washington's Life

    de Philip Levy ...
    Series series Early American Histories
    No figure in American history has generated more public interest or sustained more scholarly research around his various homes and habitations than has George Washington. The Permanent Resident is the first book to bring the principal archaeological sites of Washington's life together under one cover, revealing what they say individually and collectively about Washington’s life and career and how ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Where the Cherry Tree Grew

    The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington's Boyhood Home

    de Philip Levy ...
    A biography of Ferry Farm—George Washington's boyhood home—and its three centuries of American history."Levy's exploration yields clues to George's life there, such as whether there really was a cherry tree. . . . A wealth in deliberative detail to contemplate and relish." — Kirkus ReviewsIn 2002, Philip Levy arrived on the banks of Rappahannock River in Virginia to begin an archeological ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • George Washington Written Upon the Land

    Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape

    de Philip Levy ...
    George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia ... Leer más

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  • Cognition In Action

    This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.; Each chapter of the book starts with an example and then uses this to introduce some aspect of the ... Leer más

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  • George Washington's Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary America

    At Home in Revolutionary America

    George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his ... Leer más

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  • New England Icons

    Shaker Villages, Saltboxes, Stone Walls and Steeples

    de Bruce Irving ...
    Connect with the original New England.We tend to think of icons as simple, graphic, stone or wooden objects without much depth or life, left overs from bygone eras. But Bruce Irving, former producer of the popular PBS show This Old House, will have none of that. In a collection of short essays, Irving taps into our collective consciousness by extolling the comforting sense of place we associate ... Leer más

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  • Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans

    Edición de Laura Kilcer VanHuss ...
    Series series Reading the American Landscape
    Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South’s most famous maps: Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River, created by surveyor Marie Adrien Persac before the Civil War and used for decades to guide the pilots of river vessels. Beyond its purely cartographic function, Persac’s map depicted a world of ... Leer más

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  • Salem's Witch House

    A Touchstone to Antiquity

    de John Goff ...
    A close-up look at this historic Massachusetts landmark, including photos and illustrations.Though Salem is located on Massachusetts's scenic North Shore, its history has not always been picturesque. The "Witch City," as it is internationally known, is home to numerous landmarks dedicated to the notorious trials of 1692.Of these, the Witch House is perhaps most significant—the former residence of ... Leer más

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  • Smashing Statues

    The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

    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 ... Leer más

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