Here, George Washington Was Born Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument

Name: Here, George Washington Was Born Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument
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ISBN: 9780820331782

ISBN-10: 0820331783

ISBN-13: 9780820331782

Edition: 2008

Authors: Seth C. Bruggeman

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In Here, George Washington Was Born, Seth C. Bruggeman examines the broader history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia's Northern Neck, where contests of public memory have unfolded with particular vigor for nearly eighty years. Washington left the birthplace with his family at a young age and rarely returned. The house burned in 1779 and would likely have passed from memory but for George Washington Parke Custis, who erected a stone marker on the site in 1815, creating the first birthplace monument in America. Both Virginia and the U.S. War Department later commemorated the site, but neither matched the work…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 11/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English