The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation (eBook)

The Decade of the 1890's and the Establishment of America's First Five Military Parks

Timothy B. Smith (Autor)

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2025 | First Edition
320 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
979-8-89527-175-9 (ISBN)

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The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith, represented the pinnacle of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important? This decade was the perfect time for the establishment of these national parks. Five Civil War battlegroundsat Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Antietam, and Vicksburgwere commemorated as national sites during this time. Just past the bitterness and racial tensions of Reconstruction and prior to the explosive growth brought on by the Second Industrial Revolution, the time was right for the wars veterans from both sides to come together, in a spirit of reconciliation and brotherhood, to lead the efforts to open the parks. As yet unmarred by development, these battlefield sites were preserved mostly intact, just how the veterans would have remembered them. To date, they represent the countrys finest preserved battlefields. Smiths book is the first to look at the process of battlefield reservation as a whole. He focuses on how each of these sites was established and the important individualsthe congressmen, the former soldiers, the veteran commissionerswho were the catalysts for the creation of these parks. The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation is a watershed book about an essential period in the history of battlefield preservation and will be of interest to any reader who wishes to have a better understanding how such preservation efforts were initiated. Timothy B. Smith is the author of This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park and The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield. He is a former park ranger at the Shiloh National Military Park and now teaches at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1890s • American History • Antietam • battlefield parks • Battlefield Preservation • battlefield tourism • Chattanooga • chickamauga • Chickamauga and Chattanooga • Civil War • Civil War battlefields • Civil War memory • Collective memory • commemoration • congressional efforts • conservation history • cultural heritage • Cultural Heritage. • Gettysburg • Gilded Age • Heritage Conservation • heritage management • historical commemoration • historical interpretation • historical landscapes • Historical Memory • historical preservation • Historical preservation movement • historical significance • memorialization • military history • national heritage • national memory • National parks • Nineteenth century • park establishment • post-Reconstruction Era • preservation movement • Preservation Policy • preservation process • preserved battlefields • protected sites • Public History • Reconciliation • reconciliation era • reconstruction era • second industrial revolution • Shiloh • The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation • Timothy B. Smith • U.S. Congress • veteran commissioners • veterans • Vicksburg
• ISBN-13: 979-8-89527-175-9 / 9798895271759