1. Landmark: A British Home for the American Revolution

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction vii
4. 1. Landmark: A British Home for the American Revolution 1
5. 2. Workshop: Building a Nation 31
6. 3. Relic: Survival in the City 57
7. 4. Shrine: Slavery, Nativism, and the Forgotten History of the Nineteenth Century 80
8. 5. Legacy: Staking Claims to the Past Through Preservation 114
9. 6. Place and Symbol: The Liberty Bell Ascendant 147
10. 7. Treasure: Eighteenth-Century Building, Twentieth-Century City 182
11. 8. Anchor: A Secure Past for Cold War America 213
12. 9. Prism: Redefining Independence for a Third Century 242
13. 10. Memory: The Truths We Hold to Be Self-Evident 268
14. Notes 281
15. Index 329
16. Acknowledgments 349