Etched in stone
Subtitle: enduring words from our nation's monuments
By: by Ryan Coonerty ; photographed by Carol M. Highsmith ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley
Contributors: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781426204746
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Inscriptions; Memorials; Historic sites; National monuments; Quotations, maxims; Civilization; Values; American National characteristics; Pictorial works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: In praise of public lives : George Washington Masonic National Memorial; title: Thomas Jefferson Memorial; title: Lincoln Memorial; title: Clemens Center; title: Theodore Roosevelt Memorial; title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; title: Albert Einstein Memorial; title: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library; title: Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel; title: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.; title: Ordinary heroes : Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument; title: Minute Man National Historic Park; title: Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial; title: Gettysburg National Military Park; title: National D-Day Memorial; title: World War II Memorial; title: Marine Corps War Memorial; title: Korean War Veterans Memorial; title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial; title: United States Navy Memorial; title: Fire Museum of Memphis; title: National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.; title: Bearing witness : Salem Village Witchcraft Victims' Memorial; title: Slavery Monument; title: Angel Island Immigration Station; title: Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial; title: Japanese American Historical Plaza; title: New England Holocaust Memorial; title: National Holocaust Memorial Museum; title: Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial; title: Blacklist Sculpture Garden; title: Oklahoma City National Memorial; title: World Trade Center Memorial; title: Pentagon Memorial; title: Flight 93 National Memorial.; title: A more perfect union : National Constitution Center; title: U.S. Supreme Court Building; title: Statue of Liberty; title: Library of Congress; title: Women's Rights National Historic Park; title: Civil Rights Memorial; title: Michigan Labor Legacy Landmark; title: Tribune Tower; title: Yamhill Street; title: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; title: IBM Schoolhouse; title: Dexter Gate at Harvard University; title: Palo Alto Medical Foundation; title: International Peace Garden; title: Grauman's Chinese Theatre.