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This land is your land : a road trip through U.S. history / Beverly Gage.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E159 .G145 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gage, Beverly, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Miscellanea.
- United States.
- United States--Historiography.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States--History.
- Historic sites--United States.
- Historic sites.
- Collective memory--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Automobile travel--United States.
- Automobile travel.
- Museums--United States.
- Museums.
- Historical reenactments--United States.
- Historical reenactments.
- Automobile travel--United States--Guidebooks.
- Museums--United States--Guidebooks.
- History.
- Travel.
- Historic sites--United States--Guidebooks.
- Historical reenactments--United States--Guidebooks.
- history (discipline).
- travel.
- Genre:
- travel guidebooks.
- Informational works.
- Guidebooks.
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Ride along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn--and fight--about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America's greatest successes and challenges"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Are we there yet?
- The great experiment
- Notes on the state of Virginia
- Oppression with a vengeance
- Gone to Texas
- The north star
- South Carolina leads the way
- The center of the nation
- The jungle
- Secret formulas
- An industrial epic
- Rockets and your future
- Is this America?
- The carousel of progress
- Epilogue: Where we are.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-306) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Nichols fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781668033104
- 1668033100
- OCLC:
- 1581843291
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