Archaeology and created memory public history in a national park / Paul A. Shackel.

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Main Author: Shackel, Paul A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002.
Series:Contributions to global historical archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Harpers Ferry: A Place in Time
  • A Brief History
  • Reinventing Harpers Ferry's History
  • Reclaiming Harpers Ferry's History
  • Archaeology Supporting the Myth
  • Archaeology and Overturning Local Myth
  • Occupied Harpers Ferry During the Civil War
  • "All About Us Was the Wreckage of the Fighting": Harpers Ferry During the War
  • The Effects of War on Domestic Life in Harpers Ferry
  • Revitalization of Occupied Harpers Ferry
  • "A Village of Paupers": An Archaeology of Occupied Harpers Ferry
  • Beyond Great Men
  • Campgrounds on the Heights
  • Mrs. Stipes' Boardinghouse: The Archaeological Record
  • Harpers Ferry during Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign
  • Shanty Kitchens
  • Military Surgery on a Domestic Site
  • Landscape and Civil War Ruins
  • Public Memory
  • Rebuilding Harpers Ferry After the War
  • "The Place Never Will Be Anything Again": Lower Town Harpers Ferry and Victorian America
  • An 1865 Ethnographic Account of Harpers Ferry
  • National Reconstruction
  • Racial Tensions and Black Activism
  • Harpers Ferry's Redevelopment
  • Health, Sanitation, and Tourism in Harpers Ferry
  • Tourism in Harpers Ferry
  • The Eventual Demise of Harpers Ferry
  • "The Handsomest House in Two Towns": Urban Development of an Elite Household in Harpers Ferry
  • Early Postbellum Use of an Urban Lot
  • Hurst Occupation: 1884-1920
  • The Hurst Household
  • Interaction Within the Harpers Ferry Community
  • An Archaeology of the Hurst Family
  • Health Conditions among the Hurst Family
  • Ritualized Dining among the Hurst Family.