In this Book
- Touching America's History: From the Pequot War through WWII
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Indiana University Press
summary
Touching America's History brings readers in contact with the past through tangible objects and the history these objects evoke. America is a young country, making it possible for an individual to possess artifacts that evoke moments in the country's history ranging back as far as the 1600s. In Meredith Mason Brown's case, these objects include Indian stone tools, a forebear's compass, an 18th-century rifle, a letter signed by George Washington, a sword from the Mexican War, and other tangible remnants of America's past. Together, these widely different objects call to mind nothing less than the birth, growth, and shaping of what is now America, creating a unique survey across 400 years of the nation's history.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations and Maps
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- 7 Travels of an English Pistol
- pp. 125-149
- 8 A Killing in the Philippines
- pp. 150-176
- 9 An Award from General Pershing
- pp. 177-196
- Afterword: The Shaping of America
- pp. 225-228
- Bibliography
- pp. 253-262
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253008442
Related ISBN(s)
9780253008336
MARC Record
OCLC
829387630
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No