Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission
Author: Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Reprint of Reports of Valley Forge Park Commission for the Years 1894, 1896, 1900
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This book provides three reports from the Valley Forge Park Commission, the reports containing information about the actions of the organization and the park that year.
Reprints of Reports of Valley Forge Park Commission for the Years 1894, 1896, 1900
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military parks
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Reports of the Valley Forge Park Commissions for the Years 1902, 1904 and 1906
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reprints of Reports of Valley Forge Park Commission for the Years 1894, 1896, 1900
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This book provides three reports from the Valley Forge Park Commission, the reports containing information about the actions of the organization and the park that year.
Valley Forge
Author: Lorett TreesePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271041735
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. Here, amid the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, visitors can pass through the house which served as Washington's Headquarters during the famous winter encampment of 1777-1778. Others picnic and jog in the huge park, complete with monuments, recreated log huts, and modern visitor center, all built to pay tribute to the Valley Forge story. In this lively book, Lorett Treese shows how Valley Forge evolved into the tourist mecca that it is today. In the process, she uses Valley Forge as a means for understanding how Americans view their own past. Treese explores the origins of popular images associated with Valley Forge, such as George Washington kneeling in the snow to seek divine assistance. She places Valley Forge in the context of the historic preservation movement as the site became Pennsylvania's first state park in 1893. She studies its "Era of Monuments" and the movement to "restore" Valley Forge in the spirit of Rockefeller's enormously popular colonial Williamsburg. Treese describes a Valley Forge fraught with controversy over the appropriate appearance and use of a place so revered. One such controversy, the "hot dog war," a brief but intense battle over concession stands, was spawned by Americans' changing perceptions of how a national park was to be used. The volatile Vietnam era prompted the state park commission to establish its "Subcommittee on Sex, Hippies, and Whiskey Swillers" to investigate park regulation infractions. Even today, people differ over exactly what happened at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778. The modern visitor sees the remains of over a century of commemoration, competition, and contention. The result, Treese shows, is a historic site that may reveal more about succeeding history than about Washington's army. This book will give its readers a new way to look at Valley Forge--and all historic sites.
Proceedings of the New York Historical Association [1906]
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Author: New York State Historical Association. MeetingPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This is a historical record of the 1906 annual meeting of the New York State Historical Association. This book provides a detailed account of the presentations, discussions, and debates that took place during the conference, as well as important speeches and lectures on topics such as New York State history, politics, culture, and economy. The book includes a report from the treasurer, as well as updates on the committee's efforts to mark historic spots in the vicinity of Lake George. It also contains a historic sketch relating to the spots marked and proposed to be marked, along with a cut of the tablets erected and to be erected. This volume offers a unique insight into the intellectual and cultural landscape of New York in the early 20th century.
Report
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description