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Book Archeology at the Petersen House

Download or read book Archeology at the Petersen House written by Matthew R. Virta and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archeology at the Petersen House  Unearthing an Alternate History

Download or read book Archeology at the Petersen House Unearthing an Alternate History written by Matthew R. Virta and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Archeology at the Petersen House, Unearthing an Alternate History: A Cultural Resource Management Project Undertaken by the Regional Archeology Program, National Park Service, National Capital Region In the early morning hours of April 15, 1865 an event of national significance took place in an ordinary row house in Washington, D.C., allowing archeologists one hundred and twenty years later the opportunity to peer into a window on the past. That event was the passing away of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States of America. The row house belonged to William Petersen, a German immigrant tailor. A twist of fate, throwing together the famous with the unknown, the great with the small, created a story involving an ordinary person who should have been lost amongst the countless pages of history. Such are often the stories of archeology; this report will attempt to retell one of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Monthly Catalogue  United States Public Documents

Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lincoln s Final Hours

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  • Author : Kathryn Canavan
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2015-10-02
  • ISBN : 0813166101
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Lincoln s Final Hours written by Kathryn Canavan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Wilkes Booth fired his derringer point-blank into President Abraham Lincoln's head, he set in motion a series of dramatic consequences that would upend the lives of ordinary Washingtonians and Americans alike. In a split second, the story of a nation was changed. During the hours that followed, America's future would hinge on what happened in a cramped back bedroom at Petersen's Boardinghouse, directly across the street from Ford's Theatre. There, a twenty-three-year-old surgeon -- fresh out of medical school -- struggled to keep the president alive while Mary Todd Lincoln moaned at her husband's bedside. In Lincoln's Final Hours, author Kathryn Canavan takes a magnifying glass to the last moments of the president's life and to the impact his assassination had on a country still reeling from a bloody civil war. With vivid, thoroughly researched prose and a reporter's eye for detail, this fast-paced account not only furnishes a glimpse into John Wilkes Booth's personal and political motivations but also illuminates the stories of ordinary people whose lives were changed forever by the assassination. While countless works on the Lincoln assassination exist, Lincoln's Final Hours moves beyond the well-known traditional accounts, offering readers a front-row seat to the drama and horror of Lincoln's death by putting them in the shoes of the audience in Ford's Theatre that dreadful evening. Through her careful narration of the twists of fate that placed the president in harm's way, of the plotting conversations Booth had with his accomplices, and of the immediate aftermath of the assassination, Canavan illustrates how the experiences of a single night changed the course of history.

Book Archeological Investigation of the Armory Street  Lower Armory Grounds  Harpers Ferry Armory 46JF518

Download or read book Archeological Investigation of the Armory Street Lower Armory Grounds Harpers Ferry Armory 46JF518 written by Darlene Hassler and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadowed Ground

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  • Author : Kenneth E. Foote
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2013-12-06
  • ISBN : 0292756143
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Shadowed Ground written by Kenneth E. Foote and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997 Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Book Domestic Responses to Nineteenth century Industrialization

Download or read book Domestic Responses to Nineteenth century Industrialization written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report constitutes the archeological component for the cultural landscape report, historic structures report, and archeological research report for Park Building 48, Package 118, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The structure is situated on the eastern portion of Lot 2, north of Shenandoah Street, northeast of Virginius Island, and borders the heart of Harpers Ferry's commercial district. Archeological field investigations were sponsored by the National Park Service and performed by the Division of Archeology at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, from August 13, 1990 through November 16, 1990"--Page 1.1.

Book Archeological Views of the Upper Wager Block  a Domestic and Commercial Neighborhood in Harpers Ferry

Download or read book Archeological Views of the Upper Wager Block a Domestic and Commercial Neighborhood in Harpers Ferry written by Jill Yvonne Halchin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prior to implementation of the Package 118 restoration program in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, the park's archeological research staff conducted excavations around Park Buildings 5, 7, 16, and 16A. During the summer of 1991, a crew of four people excavated 11 units (typically 5 ft. by 5 ft.) in the backyards and under Park Building 16 where the flooring had been removed. This work gave the archaeologists the opportunity to examine firsthand and to re-evaluate the soil layers and some of the features described in previous reports. Also several additional features were discovered. This new report presents the findings of an interdisciplinary effort covering topics beyond the basic descriptions of soils and artifacts. It provides glimpses into a small piece of the town, crowded with buildings and busy with the everyday activities of families and small businesses such as a bakery/confectionery, saloons, a shoemaker's shop, and a dry goods store. ..."--Management Summary--page xiii.