Touching America's History: From the Pequot War Through WWII

by Meredith Mason Brown

Book Overview

Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probably made before the Pequot War in 1637, to the western novel Dwight Eisenhower was reading while waiting for the weather to clear so that the Normandy Invasion could...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253008336
• ISBN13: 9780253008336
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher