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Places in time : a new atlas of American history /
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| Author |
Leacock, Elspeth
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| Call Number |
j911.73 LEA |
| Publisher |
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, |
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Subject
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Children's atlases
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Atlases
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Juvenile literature.
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United States -- Historical geography.
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United States -- Historical geography -- Maps for children.
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United States -- History -- Miscellanea.
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| Title Statement |
Places in time : a new atlas of American history / Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrations by Randy Jones. |
| Description |
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 x 29 cm. |
| Contents |
Cahokia; city of the Great Sun (1200) -- Ozette; a whaling village (1490) -- Pecos; Pueblo and Mission (1627) -- New Plymouth; A home for the pilgrims (1627) -- Charlestown; a colonial city (1739) -- Fort Mose; fortress of freedom (1759) -- Boonesborough; a frontier fort (1776) -- Saratoga; the turning point (1777) -- Philadelphia; Ben Franklin's city (1787) -- Taos; at the Hacienda (1823) -- Fort Laramie; a welcome on the Oregon Trail (1849) -- Lowell; mill town (1850) -- Frogmore; a Louisiana plantation (1855) -- Gettysburg; day of decision (1863) -- Abilene; cattle town (1872) -- Gage County; threshing time (1888) -- Chicago; Christmas at the mansion (1893) -- Ellis Island; doorway to America (1901) -- New York; tenement life (1916) -- Lakewood; the city as new as tomorrow (1953). |
| Summary |
Frames United States history in visits to 20 significant historic places, from the bustling ancient North American city of Cahokia and colonial battlefields of Saratoga and Gettysburg to Ellis Island and an early 1950s suburban tract house. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contributors |
Buckley, Susan Washburn |
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Jones, Randy, 1950- ill. |
| ISBN |
0395979587 |
| LCCN |
00059741 |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
848402 |
