Historical Tours Arlington National Cemetery

Author : Cynthia Parzych
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493017508

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Historical Tours Arlington National Cemetery by Cynthia Parzych Pdf

These history travel guides provide an introduction discussing the history and preservation of the present-day site and facilities and include a detailed, walking tour interspersed with first-hand accounts about the cemetery and events that have taken place there. A timeline runs through the walking tour giving descriptions of key personalities who conceived, planned and designed the area with brief and colorful biographies. Also included is information that visitors to the site need to know about planning a trip there, including where to stay, eat, and what to see nearby.

Author : Cynthia Parzych,James C. Bradford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Generals
ISBN : OCLC:1396134931

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Historical Tours Arlington National Cemetery by Cynthia Parzych,James C. Bradford Pdf

Span>Known for its more than 300,000 graves and for iconic monuments including the John F. Kennedy gravesite and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery is one of America's most important historical landmarks. This book brings you face-to-face as never before with the people and events that have shaped its history./span

Author : Cynthia Parzych
Publisher : Timeline (Globe Pequot)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0762753293

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Arlington National Cemetery by Cynthia Parzych Pdf

Brings readers face-to-face with the people and events that have shaped Arlington National Cemetery, providing two pop-out maps, a running timeline, up to sixty historical and modern photographs, concise biographies, a detailed walking tour, and a section on planning a trip.

Author : Cynthia Parzych
Publisher : Touring History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Generals
ISBN : 1493013009

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Arlington National Cemetery by Cynthia Parzych Pdf

An exploration of the cemetery and its hallowed ground.

Author : Cynthia Parzych
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762758111

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Arlington National Cemetery by Cynthia Parzych Pdf

Walk through America's most sacred ground and come to know the people and events that have shaped history Known for its more than 300,000 graves and for iconic monuments including the John F. Kennedy gravesite and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery is one of America's most important historical landmarks. This book brings you face-to-face as never before with the people and events that have shaped its history. It features: - An introduction that sets Arlington National Cemetery in historical context - A timeline that adds further texture to the history described - A historical tour of key graves, including concise biographies of those who rest there - Nearby places to stay, eat, and visit - Archival and color photos throughout - Two PopOut maps—an archival map, and another showing the cemetery today About the Timeline series These one-of-a-kind books bring you face to face with the people and events that have shaped American history and who have left their mark on some of the nation's most important historical landmarks and locations.

Author : Ric Murphy,Timothy Stephens
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781476677309

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Section 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery by Ric Murphy,Timothy Stephens Pdf

From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too poor to be returned to their families, and some of the very first war dead to be buried there include over 1,500 men who served in the United States Colored Troops. More than 3,800 former slaves are interred in section 27, the property's original cemetery.

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff,Fodor's
Publisher : Fodor
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Alexandria (Va.)
ISBN : 9780679009498

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Fodor's 2012 Washington, D.C. by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff,Fodor's Pdf

Includes detachable fold-out map attached to p. [3] of cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Landscape architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433091389811

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Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial: History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gladys L. Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313398834

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Pop Culture Places [3 volumes] by Gladys L. Knight Pdf

This three-volume reference set explores the history, relevance, and significance of pop culture locations in the United States—places that have captured the imagination of the American people and reflect the diversity of the nation. Pop Culture Places: An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture serves as a resource for high school and college students as well as adult readers that contains more than 350 entries on a broad assortment of popular places in America. Covering places from Ellis Island to Fisherman's Wharf, the entries reflect the tremendous variety of sites, historical and modern, emphasizing the immense diversity and historical development of our nation. Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical, social, and cultural impact of each location and better understand how America has come to be a nation and evolved culturally through the lens of popular places. Approximately 200 sidebars serve to highlight interesting facts while images throughout the book depict the places described in the text. Each entry supplies a brief bibliography that directs students to print and electronic sources of additional information.

Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Outdoor recreation
ISBN : OSU:32435029208980

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Outdoor Program: National Capital Parks by United States. National Park Service Pdf

Author : Ilona Kauremszky
Publisher : Globelite Travel Marketing Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DREAMSCAPES TRAVEL & LIFESTYLE by Ilona Kauremszky Pdf

DREAMSCAPES is Canada’s premier travel & lifestyle magazine. DREAMSCAPES offers a wide selection of editorial features that will introduce you to destinations around the world, lifestyle topics and products.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Outdoor recreation
ISBN : IND:30000104310895

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Outdoor Program by Anonim Pdf

Author : Micki McElya
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674974067

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The Politics of Mourning by Micki McElya Pdf

Arlington National Cemetery is America’s most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington’s symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity.

Author : Robert M. Poole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802719782

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On Hallowed Ground by Robert M. Poole Pdf

On Hallowed Ground opens with the long-delayed funeral of four servicemen, brought home for final honors at Arlington National Cemetery almost forty years after they disappeared in Vietnam. To understand how this tradition of extraordinary care for our war dead began, Robert Poole traces the founding of Arlington Cemetery on what had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee. After resigning his commission in the U.S. Army, Lee left Arlington to command the Army of Northern Virginia. Arlington, strategic to the defense of Washington, D.C., became a U.S. Army headquarters and a cemetery for indigent Civil War soldiers before Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton made it the new national cemetery. Initially, there was no honor attached to being buried at Arlington; this began to change after the war, as the Union gathered thousands of hastily-buried casualties from nearby battlefields and reinterred them at Arlington, where they received the honors of a grateful nation. But the rites, rituals, and reverence associated with Arlington evolved over the next hundred years, paid through the blood of those who fought in the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Cold War, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Iraq and Afghanistan. Robert Poole paints an intimate, behind-the-scenes picture of the history and day-to-day operations of Arlington National Cemetery.

Author : Alison Fortier
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625850645

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A History Lover's Guide to Washington, DC by Alison Fortier Pdf

Experience the history of America’s capitol with this uniquely engaging and informative guidebook. Alternating between site visits and brief historical narratives, this guide tells the story of Washington, DC, from its origins to current times. From George Washington’s Mount Vernon to the Kennedy Center, trek through each era of the federal district, on a tour of America’s most beloved sites. Go inside the White House, the only executive home in the world regularly open to the public. Travel to President Lincoln’s Cottage and see where he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. And visit lesser-known sites, such as the grave of Pierre L’Enfant, the city’s Botanical Gardens, the Old Post Office, and a host of historical homes throughout the capital. This is the only guide you’ll need to curate an unforgettable expedition to our shining city on a hill.