Independence Hall in American Memory

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Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution there. Painstakingly restored to evoke these momentous events, the building appears to have passed thro...

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Autor principal: Mires, Charlene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) > History.
Public history.
National characteristics, American.
Memory > Social aspects.
Historic sites > Social aspects.
Buildings.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Lieux historiques > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Histoire appliquee > États-Unis.
Historic sites > Social aspects > United States.
Public history > United States.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Landmark: A British Home for the American Revolution; 2. Workshop: Building a Nation; 3. Relic: Survival in the City; 4. Shrine: Slavery, Nativism, and the Forgotten History of the Nineteenth Century; 5. Legacy: Staking Claims to the Past Through Preservation; 6. Place and Symbol: The Liberty Bell Ascendant; 7. Treasure: Eighteenth-Century Building, Twentieth-Century City; 8. Anchor: A Secure Past for Cold War America; 9. Prism: Redefining Independence for a Third Century; 10. Memory: The Truths We Hold to Be Self-Evident; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H.
  • IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.

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