Here, George Washington was born : memory, material culture, and the public history of a national monument / Seth C. Bruggeman.

Main entry:

Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- author.

Title & Author:

Here, George Washington was born : memory, material culture, and the public history of a national monument / Seth C. Bruggeman.

Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2008]
©2008

Description:

xi, 260 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.
Introduction: birthing Washington -- The first stone -- Costumed ladies and federal agents -- Building X -- A contest of relics -- Framing the colonial picture -- Homecomings.

Summary:

Seth C. Bruggeman examines the history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia's Northern Neck, where contests of public memory have unfolded with particular vigor for nearly eighty years. Washington left the birthplace with his family at a young age and rarely returned. The house burned in 1779 and would likely have passed from memory but for George Washington Parke Custis, who erected a stone marker on the site in 1815, creating the first birthplace monument in America. Both Virginia and the U.S. War Department later commemorated the site, but neither matched the work of a Virginia ladies association that in 1923 resolved to build a replica of the home. - Publisher.

Resources:
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Book review (H-Net)
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ISBN:

9780820331775 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0820331775 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780820331782 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0820331783 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Washington, George.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument.
National monuments Social aspects United States.
National monuments Political aspects United States.
Collective memory United States.
Material culture Social aspects United States.
Material culture Political aspects United States.
Public history United States.
Patriotism United States.
Nationalism United States.
Sites classés Aspect social États-Unis.
Sites classés Aspect politique États-Unis.
Mémoire collective États-Unis.
Culture matérielle Aspect social États-Unis.
Culture matérielle Aspect politique États-Unis.
Histoire appliquée États-Unis.
Patriotisme États-Unis.
Nationalisme États-Unis.
Material culture Social aspects.
Collective memory
National monuments Political aspects
Nationalism
Patriotism
Public history
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Nationaldenkmal
George Washington Birthplace National Monument (Va.) History.
United States
Virginia George Washington Birthplace National Monument
USA.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262146
Call No.: BIB 193207
Status: Available

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