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Gettysburg Contested - 150 Years of Preserving America's Cherished Landscapes (Paperback)
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Gettysburg Contested - 150 Years of Preserving America's Cherished Landscapes (Paperback)
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After the American Revolution, sites representing key events in
American history were crucial to the young nation's efforts to
formalize its story. Following the Civil War, national history
became a primary vehicle for patriotic and spiritual
reconstruction, and sites such as historic battlefields served
important roles in remembering the past during the nation's
subsequent challenging periods, including the Great Depression and
the Vietnam War. Gettysburg Contested traces patterns of
commemoration back to the well-known field of battle of July 1 3,
1863, which earned a legacy as sacred ground that remains today,
more than 150 years later. But the landscape history and record of
preservation at Gettysburg are complicated, for Gettysburg has
wrestled with large issues, ranging from public versus private
development, to the role of local, state, and federal governments,
to the actual implementation of memorialization on the battlefield.
Although the story of the battle is ingrained in the fabric of
American memory, Brian Black's account considerably broadens the
scope. Never before has Gettysburg's story been told so completely,
offering layer upon layer, story upon story. Gettysburg thus
becomes a springboard to understanding more fully the nation's need
for sacred sites and symbols of America's past, including cherished
landscapes such as Gettysburg. In Gettysburg Contested, America's
treasured battlefield becomes the great laboratory for how
Americans preserve and honor the past.
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