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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mires, Charlene
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr, 2011.
Sujets:
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.) > History.
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
Public history > United States.
Historic sites > Social aspects > United States.
National characteristics, American.
Histoire appliquée > États-Unis.
Lieux historiques > Aspect social > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Buildings
Historic sites > Social aspects
Memory > Social aspects
National characteristics, American
Public history
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
United States
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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