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Touching America's history : from the Pequot War through World War II / Meredith Mason Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Meredith M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--United States.
- Material culture.
- United States--Antiquities.
- United States.
- United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects 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 that the Normandy Invasion could begin, and to a piece of a toilet bowl found in the bombed-out wreckage of Hitler's home in the Bavarian alps in 1945. Among the other historically evocat
- Contents:
- Prologue : history through things you can touch
- Axe head, adze head
- A compass, a rifle, and the opening of the West
- Yr Most obt Servt, G. Washington
- Daguerreotype and sword
- Shavings from a scaffold
- Diaries from Indian Country
- Travels of an English pistol
- A court-martial in the Philippines
- A medal from General Pershing
- The czar of Halfaday Creek and Hitler's toilet bowl.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[253]-261)and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299243439
- 1299243436
- 9780253008442
- 0253008441
- OCLC:
- 829387630
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