Independence Hall in American Memory / / Charlene Mires.
Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution there. Painstakingly restored to evoke these momentous events, the building appears to have passed thro...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 60 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1. Landmark: A British Home for the American Revolution
- 2. Workshop: Building a Nation
- 3. Relic: Survival in the City
- 4. Shrine: Slavery, Nativism, and the Forgotten History of the Nineteenth Century
- 5. Legacy: Staking Claims to the Past Through Preservation
- 6. Place and Symbol: The Liberty Bell Ascendant
- 7. Treasure: Eighteenth-Century Building, Twentieth-Century City
- 8. Anchor: A Secure Past for Cold War America
- 9. Prism: Redefining Independence for a Third Century
- 10. Memory: The Truths We Hold to Be Self-Evident
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments