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Lost on the Freedom Trail - The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston (Paperback)
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Lost on the Freedom Trail - The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston (Paperback)
Series: Public History in Historical Perspective
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Boston National Historical Park is one of America's most popular
heritage destinations, drawing in millions of visitors annually.
Tourists flock there to see the site of the Boston Massacre, to
relive Paul Revere's midnight ride, and to board Old Ironsides-all
of these bound together by the iconic Freedom Trail, which traces
the city's revolutionary saga. Making sense of the Revolution,
however, was never the primary aim for the planners who reimagined
Boston's heritage landscape after the Second World War. Seth C.
Bruggeman demonstrates that the Freedom Trail was always largely a
tourist gimmick, devised to lure affluent white Americans into
downtown revival schemes, its success hinging on a narrow vision of
the city's history run through with old stories about heroic white
men. When Congress pressured the National Park Service to create
this historical park for the nation's bicentennial celebration in
1976, these ideas seeped into its organizational logic, precluding
the possibility that history might prevail over gentrification and
profit.
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