Touching America's History (eBook)

From the Pequot War Through WWII

Meredith Mason Brown (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
289 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-00844-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Objects that make the past feel real, from a stone axe head to a piece of John Brown's scaffold-includes photos. History isn't just about abstract "e;isms"e; it's the story of real events that happened to real people. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses a collection of such objects, drawing from his own family's heirlooms, to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head, probably made before the Pequot War in 1637, to the western novel Dwight Eisenhower was reading while waiting for the weather to clear so the Normandy Invasion could begin, to a piece of a toilet bowl found in the bombed-out wreckage of Hitler's home in 1945. Among the other historically evocative items are a Kentucky rifle carried by Col. John Floyd, killed by Indians in 1783; a letter from George Washington explaining why he will not be able to attend the Constitutional Convention; shavings from the scaffold on which John Brown was hanged; a pistol belonging to Gen. William Preston, in whose arms Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston bled to death after being shot at the Battle of Shiloh; and the records of a court-martial for the killing by an American officer of a Filipino captive during the Philippine War. Together, these objects call to mind nothing less than the birth, growth, and shaping of what is now America. "e;Clearly written, buttressed by maps and portraits, Brown's book regales while showing the objectivity and nuance of a historian."e; Library Journal "e;A whole new way of doing history a novel form of story-telling."e; Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Autor

amp;lt;P>Meredith Mason Brown is author of Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America.</P>

Inhalt

<P>List of Illustrations and Maps<BR>Acknowledgments<BR>Abbreviations and Short Titles<BR>Prologue: History through Things You Can Touch<BR>1. Axe Head, Adze Head: The Pequot War<BR>2. A Compass, a Rifle, and the Opening of the West<BR>3. Yr Most Obt Servt, George Washington: The Constitutional Convention<BR>4. Daguerreotype and Sword: Seminole and Mexican Wars<BR>5. Shavings from a Scaffold: The Hanging of John Brown<BR>6. Diaries from Indian Country, Civil War Back Home<BR>7. Travels of an English Pistol<BR>8. A Killing in the Philippines<BR>9. An Award from General Pershing<BR>10. The Czar of Halfaday Creek, and Hitler’s Toilet Bowl<BR>Afterword: The Shaping of America<BR>Bibliography<BR>Index</P>

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b&#38;w illus., 7 maps
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 37 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Schlagworte: History
• ISBN-10: 0-253-00844-1 / 0253008441
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-00844-2 / 9780253008442