LEADER 04027nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910787542403321 005 20220304211258.0 010 $a0-8122-0288-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202885 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418199 035 $a(OCoLC)859160663 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748454 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035913 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11665336 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035913 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11032692 035 $a(PQKB)11470392 035 $a(OCoLC)868219539 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29215 035 $a(DE-B1597)449147 035 $a(OCoLC)979954187 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202885 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442077 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748454 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682381 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442077 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418199 100 $a20050914e20062002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFirst city$b[electronic resource] $ePhiladelphia and the forging of historical memory /$fGary B. Nash 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (394 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American studies 300 $aOriginally published: 2002. 311 0 $a1-322-51099-7 311 0 $a0-8122-1942-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Making History Matter --$tChapter 1. Pieces Of The Colonial Past --$tChapter 2. Recalling A Commercial Seaport --$tChapter 3. The Revolution'S Many Faces --$tChapter 4. A New City For A New Nation --$tChapter 5. A City In Flux --$tChapter 6. Reforming Philadelphia --$tChapter 7. In Civil War And Reconstruction --$tChapter 8. Workshop Of The World, Schoolhouse Of History --$tChapter 9. Restoring Memory --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex --$tPermissions 330 $aWith its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in Philadelphia. The city served off and on as the official capital of the young country until 1800, and was also the site of the first American university, hospital, medical college, bank, paper mill, zoo, sugar refinery, public school, and government mint. In First City, acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash examines the complex process of memory making in this most historic of American cities. Though history is necessarily written from the evidence we have of the past, as Nash shows, rarely is that evidence preserved without intent, nor is it equally representative. Full of surprising anecdotes, First City reveals how Philadelphians-from members of elite cultural institutions, such as historical societies and museums, to relatively anonymous groups, such as women, racial and religious minorities, and laboring people-have participated in the very partisan activity of transmitting historical memory from one generation to the next. 606 $aHistoric preservation$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia 606 $aMemory$xSocial aspects$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistoriography 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$xSocieties, etc 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aBooks of Regional Interest. 615 0$aHistoric preservation 615 0$aMemory$xSocial aspects 676 $a974.8/11 700 $aNash$b Gary B$0626182 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787542403321 996 $aFirst city$93809406 997 $aUNINA