Writing America : literary landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee, a reader's companion / Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Celebrating the many in one : Walt Whitman Birthplace, Huntington, Long Island, New York -- Living in harmony with nature : Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts -- Freedom's port : the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, New Bedford, Massachusetts -- The house that Uncle Tom's cabin built : Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford, Connecticut -- The irony of American history : the Mark Twain Boyhood Home, Hannibal, Missouri, and the Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut -- Native American voices remember : Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota -- I know why the caged bird sings : the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, Dayton, Ohio -- Leaving the old world for the new : the Tenement Museum, New York City -- The revolt from the village : the Original Main Street, Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- Asian American writers and creativity in confinement : Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California, and Manzanar National Historic Site, Independence, California -- Harlem and the flowering of African American letters : the 135th Street Library / the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, New York City -- Mexican American writers in the borderlands of culture : San Ygnacio, Roma, La Lomita, and San Agustin de Laredo Historic Districts, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas -- American writers and dreams of the silver screen : Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District, Los Angeles, California.

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