LEADER 02683nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910820570503321 005 20210818185511.0 010 $a1-299-24343-6 010 $a0-253-00844-1 035 $a(CKB)2560000000098218 035 $a(EBL)1144292 035 $a(OCoLC)829387630 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000836255 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11457665 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836255 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10997381 035 $a(PQKB)11577925 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1144292 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26710 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1144292 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10666282 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL455593 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000098218 100 $a20120827d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTouching America's history$b[electronic resource] $efrom the Pequot War through World War II /$fMeredith Mason Brown 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00833-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.[253]-261)and index. 327 $aPrologue : 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. 330 $aThings 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 evocat 606 $aMaterial culture$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xAntiquities 607 $aUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aMaterial culture 676 $a973 700 $aBrown$b Meredith M$0141738 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820570503321 996 $aTouching America's history$94104589 997 $aUNINA