Product Description: Exploring sites of historic interest from grand houses to tenement dwellings, with insightful commentary.

“The best compilation of work about the French and Indian War to date.”—James Parker, coauthor of Archaeology at Fort Mims “Provides images of life on the expanding American frontier of the mid-eighteenth century. A unique and significant discussion of the French and Indian War.”—Clarence R. Geier, coeditor of Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampments during the American Civil War Fort Ticonderoga, the allegedly impenetrable star fort at the southern end of Lake Champlain, is famous for its role in the French and Indian War. From barracks to bastions, many other one-of-a-kind forts were also instrumental in staking out the early American colonial frontier. This collection of essays presents an overview of the fortifications that guarded the frontiers and borderlands between Native Americans, French settlers, and Anglo-American settlers. Civilian, provincial, or imperial, the fortifications examined here range from South Carolina’s Fort Prince George to Fort Frontenac in Ontario and Fort de Chartres in Illinois.As Europeans and colonists struggled to control the lucrative fur trade routes of the northern boundary, these strongholds were part of the first serious arms race on the continent. Contributors to this volume reveal how the French and British adapted their fortification techniques to the special needs of the North American frontier. By exploring the unique structures that guarded the borderlands, this book reveals much about the underlying economies and dynamics of the broader conflict that defined a critical episode of the American experience.

Product Description: Comprendre le droit international, c est en comprendre l evolution dans le temps. L ambition de ce cours est de promouvoir cette forme de connaissance, qui implique de se departir des presentations habituellement rencontrees dans les manuels, axees sur des thematiques comme les sources, les sujets, les competences...read more

Product Description: Recent developments in the ICT, web and mobile technologies have significantly boosted research and development activities aimed at the creation and management of digital cultural heritage resources. Managing digital cultural heritage involves a number of challenges ranging from the digitization of cultural heritage objects and artefacts to various knowledge organization challenges that include metadata, indexing and retrieval, and various user and social challenges such as information seeking and retrieval in the context of cultural heritage, digital divide and social inclusion, social and legal policy issues, and moreover long term access and sustainability issues ...read more

Product Description: “Civil War enthusiasts will find the investigations in this book fascinating. A cadre of skilled, veteran archaeologists covers the continent—including camps and battle sites in Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Missouri, Florida, and South Carolina...read more

Product Description: Route 66 is a fixture of American culture. For the truckers, salesmen and vacationers who have traveled it and for the people who live along it, the road is a reminder of the bygone days of American motoring. Despite time, neglect and progress, Route 66 endures...read more

Product Description: As a longstanding cultural icon and beloved vacation destination, U.S. Route 66’s legendary notoriety continues unabated. In fact, thanks to a corps of preservationists dedicated to keeping nostalgia for the road alive, interest in America’s Main Street is actually growing...read more

Product Description: Scores of birthplace monuments and historic childhood homes dot the American landscape. These special places, many dating to the early years of the last century, have enshrined nativity alongside patriotism and valor among the key pillars of the nation s popular historical imagination...read more

Product Description: Route 66 Still Kicks is an exhilarating, heartbreaking drive down a forgotten road through unknown America. Author Rick Antonson and his travel nemesis, the inscrutable Peter, patiently journey 2,400 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles through eight states seeking — and finding — all the old parts that remain of Route 66...read more

Product Description: Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated with the conflict remain a mystery. This gazetteer provides information on nearly 1600 sites, including not only locations of battles and skirmishes but also hospitals, prison camps, military academies, factories and navy yards, both North and South...read more

Product Description: This fascinating book contains more than 150 significant landmarks, incorporating every geographical region of the United States of America.

Product Description: Known as "The X-Hunters", authors Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore have located more than 100 crash sites of exotic aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base and Area 51. Together, they have recovered parts of supersonic rocket planes, stealthy spy craft, and vehicles that have reached the edge of space...read more

Product Description: Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly 200 statues erected in memory of Abraham Lincoln. No other American has ever been so widely commemorated.A few years ago, anticipating the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, Jim Percoco, a history teacher with a passion for both Lincoln and public sculpture, set off to see what he might learn about some of these monuments-what they meant when they were unveiled, and what they mean to us today...read more

A leading architectural historian furnishes a richly illustrated tribute to more than three dozen of America's most important monuments, including the Alamo, Gettysburg, Mount Rushmore, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in a panoramic volume that includes candid interviews with architects, maps, a historical timeline, rare illustrations, and fascinating facts. 50,000 first printing.

Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's selfidentity and should be studied as seriously as more national institutions like the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Organized in chronological order, a richly illustrated travelogue journeys to the great military battlefields of America as it explores each site, offering detailed descriptions of the campaign that took place, the battlefield's significance, and monuments to the fallen, and includes helpful travel tips for those planning a trip to a site.

Product Description: A biography in travel guide form that traces Daniel Boone's life from his childhood in Pennsylvania, through his exploits in Virginia and North Carolina, to his expeditions in Kentucky, Tennessee, and ultimately Missouri.

Product Description: Leading readers to archaeological sites from Canada to the Caribbean and through time from the era of early Norse voyages to World War II, this book describes compelling discoveries unearthed by archaeologists in search of North America's historical past...read more

Product Description: Presents a variety of archaeological case studies on daily life in a wide range of locations and circumstances.Because archaeology seeks to understand past societies, the concepts of "home," "house," and "household" are important...read more