02680nam 2200577Ia 450 991082057050332120240313180215.01-299-24343-60-253-00844-1(CKB)2560000000098218(EBL)1144292(OCoLC)829387630(SSID)ssj0000836255(PQKBManifestationID)11457665(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836255(PQKBWorkID)10997381(PQKB)11577925(MiAaPQ)EBC1144292(MdBmJHUP)muse26710(Au-PeEL)EBL1144292(CaPaEBR)ebr10666282(CaONFJC)MIL455593(EXLCZ)99256000000009821820120827d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTouching America's history from the Pequot War through World War II /Meredith Mason Brown1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20131 online resource (288 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00833-6 Includes bibliographical references (p.[253]-261)and index.Prologue : history through things you can touch -- Axe head, adze head -- A compass, a rifle, and the opening of the West -- Yr Most obt Servt, G. Washington -- Daguerreotype and sword -- Shavings from a scaffold -- Diaries from Indian Country -- Travels of an English pistol -- A court-martial in the Philippines -- A medal from General Pershing -- The czar of Halfaday Creek and Hitler's toilet bowl.Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probably made before the Pequot War in 1637, to the western novel Dwight Eisenhower was reading while waiting for the weather to clear so that the Normandy Invasion could begin, and to a piece of a toilet bowl found in the bombed-out wreckage of Hitler's home in the Bavarian alps in 1945. Among the other historically evocatMaterial cultureUnited StatesUnited StatesAntiquitiesUnited StatesHistoryMaterial culture973Brown Meredith M141738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820570503321Touching America's history4104589UNINA