Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park Pennsylvania 2014 written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

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:

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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.

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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:

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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 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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:

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:

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:

Download or read book Valley Forge Historical Research Project In the true rustic order material aspects of the Valley Forge encampment 1777 1778 written by Wayne K. Bodle and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Valley Forge National Historical Park Pennsylvania written by Harpers Ferry Center (U.S.). Division of Interpretive Planning and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reprints of Reports of Valley Forge Park Commission for the Years 1894 1896 1900 written by Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides three reports from the Valley Forge Park Commission, the reports containing information about the actions of the organization and the park that year.

Download or read book Valley Forge written by George Matlack and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1893, Pennsylvania's first state park was created when the Governor of Pennsylvania signed into law an act which stated that certain grounds should be 'preserved and maintained, forever, as a public place or park by the name of Valley Forge.' In a ceremony held on July 4, 1976, those grounds were authorized to become part of the National Park System. Today, Valley Forge National Historical Park serves as a memorial to those who suffered and lost their lives during the encampment. It also preserves the site where new Congressional reforms supporting the army were proposed and agreed upon, where a superior training system was introduced, and where a powerful ally's entry into the war was announced and celebrated"--Page 9.