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Interpreting American military history at museums and historic sites /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blackburn, Marc K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Series:Interpreting history.
Subjects:
Military museums > United States.
Historic sites > Interpretive programs > United States.
Museums > Environmental aspects > United States.
Military parks > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Interpretation
  • Introduction to American military history
  • Colonization and settlement (1607-1763)
  • Revolution and the new republic: 1763-1815
  • The constitutional settlement, 1783-1815
  • The antebellum period, 1815-1860
  • The Civil War, 1860-1865
  • 1865-1914: internal and external expansion
  • On the world's stage: 1914-1939
  • World War Two, 1941-1945
  • On the brink: the Cold War, 1945-1973
  • A world undone: the Cold War and beyond, 1973-present.