Artifactsand the American past

By Thomas J. Schlereth

Subjects: Photography in historiography, Antiquities, United states, antiquities, Addresses, essays, lectures, Civilization, Historical museums, United States, Addresses, essays,lectures

Description: This book presents ways to explore and teach history outside the traditional classroom experience--by the study of historic photographs, mail-order catalogs, cartography, historic house museums and villages, the 1876 Centennial, plants and natural material culture, and regional studies through what the author calls above-ground archaeology.