A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History - Couverture souple

Grove, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803249721 ISBN 13 : 9780803249721

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2014

Synopsis

For more than twenty years, Tim Grove has worked at the most popular history museums in the United States, helping millions of people get acquainted with the past. This book translates that experience into an insider's tour of some of the most interesting moments in American history. Grove's stories are populated with well-known historical figures such as John Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea--as well as the not-so-famous. Have you heard of Mary Pickersgill, seamstress of the Star-Spangled Banner flag? Grove also has something to say about a few of our cherished myths, for instance, the lore surrounding Betsy Ross and Eli Whitney.

Grove takes readers to historic sites such as Harpers Ferry, Fort McHenry, the Ulm Pishkun buffalo jump, and the Lemhi Pass on the Lewis and Clark Trail and traverses time and space from eighteenth-century Williamsburg to the twenty-first-century Kennedy Space Center. En route from Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic to Cape Disappointment on the Pacific, we learn about planting a cotton patch on the National Mall, riding a high wheel bicycle, flying the transcontinental airmail route, and harnessing a mule. Is history relevant? This book answers with a resounding yes and, in the most entertaining fashion, shows us why.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tim Grove is chief of museum learning at the National Air and Space Museum. He is the coauthor of The Museum Educator's Manual and received the 2008 Smithsonian Individual Achievement in Education Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803249721
• ISBN 13: 9780803249721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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