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Book Mission 66 Visitor Centers

Download or read book Mission 66 Visitor Centers written by Sarah Allaback and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes 6 national park visitor centers built from 1956-1966 during the National Park Service's Mission 66 park development program. Includes a brief history of the Mission 66 program.

Book Mission 66 for Natural Bridges National Monument

Download or read book Mission 66 for Natural Bridges National Monument written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stones River National Battlefield

Download or read book Stones River National Battlefield written by Sean M. Styles and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maritime Museum  Stones River National Battlefield  Western Historic Trails Center  and Pinelands National Reserve Visitors Center

Download or read book Maritime Museum Stones River National Battlefield Western Historic Trails Center and Pinelands National Reserve Visitors Center written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hell by the Acre

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  • Author : Daniel A. Masters
  • Publisher : Savas Beatie
  • Release : 2024-11-21
  • ISBN : 161121713X
  • Pages : 673 pages

Download or read book Hell by the Acre written by Daniel A. Masters and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2024-11-21 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the pivotal Stones River Campaign of 1862-1863, detailing the intense battles and firsthand accounts that turned the tide for the Union Army. The waning days of 1862 marked a nadir in the fortunes of the Union. After major defeats at Fredericksburg in Virginia and Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi, it fell to Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans and his Army of the Cumberland to secure a victory that would give military teeth to the Emancipation Proclamation set to take effect on January 1, 1863. Rosecrans moved his army out of Nashville on the day after Christmas to Murfreesboro, met Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee, and fought one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the war. The full campaign, with extensive new material and coverage, is the subject of Daniel Masters’ new Hell by the Acre: A Narrative History of the Stones River Campaign, November 1862-January 1863. The opposing armies, 44,000 men under Rosecrans and 37,000 under Bragg, locked bayonets on December 31, 1862, in some of the hardest fighting of the war. Bragg’s initial attack drove the Federals back nearly three miles, captured 29 cannons, and thousands of prisoners. Somehow the Union lines held firm during the critical fighting along the Nashville Pike that afternoon against repeated determined attacks that left both armies bloodied and exhausted. The decisive moment came two days later when, in the fading afternoon of January 2, 1863, Bragg launched an assault on an isolated Union division on the east bank of Stones River. Once again, the Confederates enjoyed initial success only to be repulsed by 58 Union guns arrayed along the west bank and a daring counterattack. This repulse broke Bragg’s hold on Murfreesboro. He retreated the following night, leaving Rosecrans and his army victors of the field. Stones River was the quintessential soldiers’ battle. Prior books focus more on the generalship and high-level commands than the often-forgotten men in the ranks. Masters constructed his study from the ground up by focusing on the experiences of the front-line troops through hundreds of archival and firsthand accounts, many of which have never been published. Hell by the Acre is an unparalleled soldier’s view of Civil War combat and tactical command. Stones River marked a turning point for Federal fortunes in the Western Theater, and this fresh and original study sets forth the hefty cost of securing that victory for the Union.

Book The Politics of Memory

Download or read book The Politics of Memory written by Miranda Fraley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the evolution of Civil War memories in Rutherford County, Tennessee from the 1860s to the present. It explores how race, gender, and regional identities shaped individuals' perspectives on the war, commemorative events and organizations, and the development of historic sites such as Stones River National Battlefield. This study demonstrates how civilians and soldiers began to understand and commemorate this war before the conflict ended. It discusses the two main local commemorative groups, Union and Confederate, and how they evolved over time. This dissertation complicates the history of Civil War battlefields managed by the federal government by investigating the relationships between Stones River National Battlefield, African American landowners and park neighbors, and local white Confederate sympathizers. ...Investigating Confederate memory on a local level exposes the unequal struggle for leadership of this movement between white women and men. Although women largely created and sustained Confederate commemoration in the county, men usurped their projects and positions of authority during times like the 1890s and 1960s when political and social developments menaced white male supremacy. Gendered disputes between white men and women helped transform Confederate commemoration over time from a culture of mourning to a celebration of white soldiers' heroism and finally into a form of entertainment that glorified the Confederate past and white male supremacy."-Abstract, pages vii-viii.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2458 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 2458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1964

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1964 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1961 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2806 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 2806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mission 66

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  • Author : Ethan Carr
  • Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781558495876
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mission 66 written by Ethan Carr and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal programs further reduced the ability of the federal government to keep pace with the wear and tear on park facilities. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled Mission 66 was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. The program covered more than one hundred visitor centers (a building type invented by Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, innumerable comfort stations and other public facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of employee residences. During this transformation, the park system also acquired new seashores, recreation areas, and historical parks, agency uniforms were modernized, and the arrowhead logo became a ubiquitous symbol. To a significant degree, the national park system and the National Park Service as we know them today are products of the Mission 66 era. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Hastening the advent of the modern environmental movement, it transformed the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineering club into a national advocacy organization. But Mission 66 was also the last systemwide, planned development campaign to accommodate increased numbers of automotive tourists. Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities the program built. Ethan Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/

Book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1964

Download or read book Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1964 written by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Parks

Download or read book The National Parks written by Barry Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : United States. National Park Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1950
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Report written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interior Department and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill  1962

Download or read book Interior Department and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill 1962 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Regional Planning      The Southeast

Download or read book Regional Planning The Southeast written by United States. National Resources Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: