Artifactsand the American past
By: Thomas J. Schlereth.
Publisher: American Association for State and Local History
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: United States -- Antiquities -- Addresses, essays,lectures.; United States -- Civilization -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Historical museums -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Photography in historiography -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Description: This book presents ways to explore and teach history outside the traditional classroom experience--by the study of historic photographs, mail-order catalogs, cartography, historic house museums and villages, the 1876 Centennial, plants and natural material culture, and regional studies through what the author calls above-ground archaeology.
Notes: Includes index.

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