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Book Valley Forge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey A. Swigart
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780738511177
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Valley Forge written by Stacey A. Swigart and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valley Forge is a name that resonates in the minds of many Americans. As the site of the 1777-1778 encampment of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War, it has come to symbolize determination and triumph. While many people know something revolutionary happened in Valley Forge, they do not understand how or why it became a place of remembrance today. Using the rich historical collections of the National Center for the American Revolution and Valley Forge Historical Society, Valley Forge shares the early-twentieth-century history of the area through nearly two hundred images, the majority of which are published for the first time.Valley Forge offers a variety of historical views and background into the site that became Pennsylvania's first state park. Highlights include Washington's Headquarters and the patriotic and inspiring Washington Memorial Chapel, as well as Revolutionary War artifacts that have found a home in Valley Forge. Thousands of books exist on the history of the American War for Independence, but few describe the events and people who have struggled to preserve that story of independence for people everywhere, as Valley Forge does.

Book Valley Forge National Historical Park Pennsylvania

Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park Pennsylvania written by United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge National Historical Park

Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge National Historical Park  General Management Plan

Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park General Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge National Historical Park  Statement for Management  1977  B1  Revised Statement for Management B2  Draft General Management Plan  GMP   Environmental Assessment  EA  B3  Draft General Management Plan  GMP   Environmental Assessment  EA  Summary B4  Draft General Management Plan  GMP   1981

Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park Statement for Management 1977 B1 Revised Statement for Management B2 Draft General Management Plan GMP Environmental Assessment EA B3 Draft General Management Plan GMP Environmental Assessment EA Summary B4 Draft General Management Plan GMP 1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission

Download or read book Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission written by Valley Forge Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Administrative History

Download or read book Administrative History written by Harlan D. Unrau and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge

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  • Author : Lorett Treese
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780271041735
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Valley Forge written by Lorett Treese and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. Here, amid the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, visitors can pass through the house which served as Washington's Headquarters during the famous winter encampment of 1777-1778. Others picnic and jog in the huge park, complete with monuments, recreated log huts, and modern visitor center, all built to pay tribute to the Valley Forge story. In this lively book, Lorett Treese shows how Valley Forge evolved into the tourist mecca that it is today. In the process, she uses Valley Forge as a means for understanding how Americans view their own past. Treese explores the origins of popular images associated with Valley Forge, such as George Washington kneeling in the snow to seek divine assistance. She places Valley Forge in the context of the historic preservation movement as the site became Pennsylvania's first state park in 1893. She studies its "Era of Monuments" and the movement to "restore" Valley Forge in the spirit of Rockefeller's enormously popular colonial Williamsburg. Treese describes a Valley Forge fraught with controversy over the appropriate appearance and use of a place so revered. One such controversy, the "hot dog war," a brief but intense battle over concession stands, was spawned by Americans' changing perceptions of how a national park was to be used. The volatile Vietnam era prompted the state park commission to establish its "Subcommittee on Sex, Hippies, and Whiskey Swillers" to investigate park regulation infractions. Even today, people differ over exactly what happened at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778. The modern visitor sees the remains of over a century of commemoration, competition, and contention. The result, Treese shows, is a historic site that may reveal more about succeeding history than about Washington's army. This book will give its readers a new way to look at Valley Forge--and all historic sites.

Book Varnum s Quarters

Download or read book Varnum s Quarters written by John P. Brucksch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge Historical Research Project

Download or read book Valley Forge Historical Research Project written by Wayne K. Bodle and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge National Historical Park

Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge Historical Research Report

Download or read book Valley Forge Historical Research Report written by Wayne K. Bodle and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Valley Forge

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  • Author : United States. National Park Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
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  • Pages : 1 pages

Download or read book Valley Forge written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission

Download or read book Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission written by Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: