Born in the U.S.A. : birth, commemoration, and American public memory / edited by Seth C. Bruggeman.
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| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Public history in historical perspective.
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Table of Contents:
- Locating the birthplace in American Public memory / Seth C. Bruggeman
- Remembering John Muir, the Trans-Atlantic "father" of wilderness conservation / Angela Phelps
- This house holds many memories: constructions of a presidential birthplace at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site / Christine Arato
- Commemorating Jimmy Carter and Southern rural life in plains, Georgia / Zachary J. Lechner
- Authenticity and interpretation at Mark Twain's Birthplace cabins / Hilary Iris Lowe
- Stratford Hall: a memorial to Robert E. Lee? / Paul Reber, Laura Lawfer Orr
- Memories, monuments, and Mormonism: the birthplace of Joseph Smith in Vermont / Keith A. Erekson
- Rosine, Kentucky: birthplace of Bill Monroe and American bluegrass music / Cynthia Miller
- "Right here in Mason City": Meredith Willson and musical memory in the American Midwest / Anna Thompson Hajdik
- Paulsdale: adapting Alice Paul's birthplace for a new generation of leaders / Kris Myers
- The raven in the frog pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the city of Boston / Paul Lewis, Dan Currie
- Du Bois in Great Barrington: the promises and pitfalls of a boyhood historic site / David Glassberg, Robert Paynter
- Conclusion of babies and bathwater: birthplace "shrines" and the future of the Historic House Museum / Patricia West.