Sacred relics : pieces of the past in nineteenth-century America / Teresa Barnett.

By:

Barnett, Teresa [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781299784710
9780226059747

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

AM305 .S237 2013

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Contents:

ORIGINS AND MEANINGS

2 History's remains -- 3. The sentimental relic.

THE CIVIL WAR

5 "In memory of our beloved confederacy" -- 6 From relic to souvenir: buffs' collecting of the war.

CONCLUSION

Subject: A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past-often called "association items"--May appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued because of their connections to prominent people and events in American history. Kept in museum collections large and small across the United States, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history. In Sacred Relics, Teresa Barnett explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating ho.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Part 1: -- ORIGINS AND MEANINGS

1 Beginnings -- 2 History's remains -- 3. The sentimental relic.

Part 2: -- THE CIVIL WAR

4 The battlefield's remains -- 5 "In memory of our beloved confederacy" -- 6 From relic to souvenir: buffs' collecting of the war.

Part 3: -- CONCLUSION

7 The waning of the relic.

A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past-often called "association items"--May appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued because of their connections to prominent people and events in American history. Kept in museum collections large and small across the United States, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history. In Sacred Relics, Teresa Barnett explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating ho.

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