5. American Antiquities Are So Rare: Remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: The Changing Nature of Battlefield Tourism and Commemoration 1
6. 1. Accidental Tourists: The Bonefields of Braddock’s Defeat and Ticonderoga 17
7. 2. Forsaken Graves: The Emergence of Memory on the Northern Tour 36
8. 3. Retrieved Relics and New Monuments: Lafayette in Yorktown 65
9. 4. Memory without Tourism: Traces of the Southern Campaigns 99
10. 5. American Antiquities Are So Rare: Remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier 127
11. 6. The Value of Union: Antebellum Commemoration and the Coming of the Civil War 159
12. Notes 185
13. Index 221