Civil War Battlefields. Adam Goodheart.
by Goodheart, Adam; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 35Environment. Publisher: National Geographic, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Antietam, Battle of, Md. (1862) | Antietam National Battlefield (Md.) | Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (V | Battlefields | Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va | Gettysburg (Pa.) | Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) | Harpers Ferry -- (W. Va.) | Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration | Manassas National Battlefield Park (Va.) | National parks and reserves | Suburban sprawl | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | U.S. -- History -- Civil War (1861-1865) -- BattlefieldsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Traveling among the nation's Civil War battlefields today [2005] is a disorienting experience, constantly beset with such slippages between the present and the past. From New Mexico to Pennsylvania, many of the places where the Union and Confederacy clashed are now caught up in another struggle between a quickly vanishing America of small farms and crossroads villages and a newer landscape of megamalls and sprawling McMansions. Places that were at the front lines 140 years ago--Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg--are at the front lines again today. Exactly at a moment when Americans seem more interested than ever in finding connections to the wartime past, much of that past is in danger of being lost." (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) The author describes how Civil War battlefields are being "engulfed by suburban sprawl" as developers and preservationists battle over the disappearing landscapes.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Civil War Battlefields, April 2005; pp. 62-85.
"Traveling among the nation's Civil War battlefields today [2005] is a disorienting experience, constantly beset with such slippages between the present and the past. From New Mexico to Pennsylvania, many of the places where the Union and Confederacy clashed are now caught up in another struggle between a quickly vanishing America of small farms and crossroads villages and a newer landscape of megamalls and sprawling McMansions. Places that were at the front lines 140 years ago--Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg--are at the front lines again today. Exactly at a moment when Americans seem more interested than ever in finding connections to the wartime past, much of that past is in danger of being lost." (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) The author describes how Civil War battlefields are being "engulfed by suburban sprawl" as developers and preservationists battle over the disappearing landscapes.
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