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"Manzanar National Historic Site:In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Layers of History:This land has been a War Relocation Center, an apple farming community, a cattle ranch, and home of the Owens Valley Paiute. Together, these occupations illustrate Manzanar's long history of recurring human settlement, inhabitation, and displacement. Volunteers:Volunteers help the National Park Service meet our national mission. They have made immeasurable contributions in every division within Manzanar National Historic Site. You can too.Teacher Guides and Lesson Plans:Explore the vast potential of learning at Manzanar. These teaching materials were designed to inspire teachers to utilize Manzanar National Historic Site in teaching history, language arts, math, and art while meeting numerous state teaching standards.Manzanar is located in the Owens Valley at 4,000' elevation, at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada. We get little precipitation but we do have four distinct seasons. Summer temperatures can soar over 100 degrees. Winter highs are usually in the 40's. Nighttime temperatures year round are 30 to 40 degrees less than daytime highs. High winds are common in any season.Did You Know?Eight guard towers were built around the perimeter of the camp. They were staffed by Military Police with submachine guns. In 2005 the National Park Service rebuilt one of the guard towers." -- Manzanar National Historic Site, U.S. National Park Service Website, retrieved 5/26/2008(http://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm)Book with information, history, photography and maps on the Manzanar National Historic Site for those who wish to learn about and visit. ... Read more

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Summary and Review by T.S. Hunter
Book with information, history, photography and maps on the Manzanar National Historic Site for those who wish to learn about and visit. Never mind the haters and the lamers, an important book about an important subject and place often dismissed and ignored, which is part of American and Californian history, and any and all can benefit from visiting here if they keep an open mind and heart. This guidebook is helpful for those who travel alone or with a group. Many participated in the culmination and production of this book over time, including many of the original internees of the original Manzanar camp when it existed during wartime as well as many who were interned in other camps during World War II in the United States.Beautiful book compiled and printed on parchment with many black and white photographs and illustrations, as well as maps, histories and tours laid out to experience.I thank my good friend who is one of the chief curators of this book and member of The Manzanar Committee for the introduction to it, and for spending meaningful quality time with them there.I look forward to my next trip to Manzanar.:)10/10 ... Read more

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The role of museum director has gone through many changes over the years. It is for this reason that Bryant F. Tolles, Jr. has written this insightful volume of thought-provoking essays on this transforming position in American history museums and historical societies. "Leadership for the Future" takes a multifaceted look at the role of director, examining its function as intellectual leader and educator; initiator of professional standards and training; legal guardian, organizer, and energizer for planning; fund raiser, marketing agent, and cultivator of institutional support; internal communicator; fiscal, facilities, and security manager. Image, social responsibilities, and positions within the public sector are also defined, along with the director's role in collections development, management, and conservation; exhibit and educational interpretation; and research functions. For museum directors or anyone who aspires to that role, this is useful, thoughtful reading. ... Read more

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Carelessly Constructed PC Rhetoric
Archaologists know that at Mount Vernon, the house slaves ate off of porcelain dishes. Burnham argues that whatever they ate off doesn't indicate the quality of their lives in any way. My 10-year old, listening to this chapter, piped up: "In "Addie", she ate off a splintery wooden board." My 13-year old remembered, "Booker T Washington had his food served on a piece of bread, then ate the bread."I would say that what you eat from indicates something about how you live, any any reasoning person can evaluate the quality of life from that.Burnham is determined to pick and paw over every detail to try to make it tell the story he wants to tell: That nothing we've been told about American history is fair, and the truth was buried by a white conspiracy. It just doesn't hold together. This book is recommended for libraries? Why, when you can get infantile rhetoric and flabby arguments for free on every airwave--especially in an election season?

Hard to read. Full of facts. No plot. But does hit home.
The book has many good pictures and describes the conditions very well, but it is a book that is only full of facts and doesn't have a plot line to keep the reader reading. The only way you could get through it is if youwere only useing it as a resouce for an essay or other project. If you werereading it for pleasur you would probably not get through it. ... Read more

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Ghost Towns and Other Historical Sites of the Black Hills is the second in the series of the American West. Bruce continues his journey down the road less traveled to numerous ghost towns of the Black Hills. A new adventure awaits on every page as you follow the trail of George Custer, gold Prospectors, mining towns, farms, stagecoaches, timber and tourist towns, and the railroads, to places that are haunted by spirits; a new adventure waits on every page. ... Read more

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The Black South, areas chock-full of historical and cultural landmarks of African-American significance, should not be considered just offbeat, road-less-travelled sections of the more traditional South, but the foundation of its very existence. The purpose of this book is to document and highlight the significant contributions that Southern blacks have made to their country. The Historic Black South includes historic sites, churches, museums, art galleries, festivals, restaurants, nightclubs, jazz joints, birthsites, gravesites, radio programs, record stores, barbershops, beaches, parks, schools, and markets -- the essence of the black communities. ... Read more

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Picturesque
This booklet does a fine job of describing Minnesota's Split Rock Lighthouse.Using pictures, drawings and interviews, the author gives an accurate picture of the history and functions of this historic structure. Besides the lighthouse there is also the fog signal building.

The storms of 1905 on Lake Superior made the need for a new lighthouse apparent.Numerous ships were destroyed or damaged that year during the shipping season.And over 100 lives were lost on the Great Lakes in 1905 due to ships crashing on the rocks or sinking in the storms.

In 1907, Congress approved funding for the construction of a lighthouse and fog signal at Split Rock.Construction began in 1909 and finished in 1910.

Mr. Hall does a good job of describing several of the men who worked at Split Rock prior to WWII.And he also recounts many of the stories of the children of the lighthouse keepers.They lived in the homes built next to the lighthouse.

Mr. Hall also gives a thorough and accurate description of the technology used to create an effective and timely light in the tower.

"...the opening of the North Shore highway in 1924" was the seminal event in making the lighthouse a major tourist attraction.Once the lighthouse was accessible, the tourists came to see it.According to the author, Split Rock received "...five times as many visitors as any other station" in the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Split Rock's fog signal ceased operations in 1961. And the lighthouse followed in 1969.But the tourists have continued on.

In summary, Mr. Hall gives a very well done survey of Split Rock Lighthouse.Its construction, history and people are all covered here. ... Read more

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This historical guidebook to American Indian places features illuminating essays and contributions from leading scholars.

It includes 366 places that are significant to American Indians and are open to the public. These include Ganondagan State Historic Site in New York, Kituhwa Mound in North Carolina, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois, Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa, Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, Navajo National Monument in Arizona, La Purísima Mission State Historic Park in California, and Nez Perce National Historical Park in Idaho.


More than 275 authorities who know and revere these places wrote essays, including Suzan Shown Harjo, Frederick E. Hoxie, Clara Sue Kidwell, Rennard Strickland, and David Hurst Thomas. Tribal culture committees and tribal historians have also contributed essays.


Frances H. Kennedy, editor and principal contributor, wrote short entries on more than one hundred of the places. Royalties will be donated to the National Museum of the American Indian. W. Richard West Jr., the museum's founding director, is the primary adviser to American Indian Places. ... Read more

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"Perfect Gift"
I purchased this book as a gift. The customer reviews were extremely accurate. The book was a hit. Thank you!

Indispensable Guidebook to Native American Sites in the U.S.
Ok, first the standard disclaimer: I am one of the contributors of one short essay to this volume...so I won't review my own essay on Blood Run National Historic Landmark ;-)However, there are over 370 sites and essays from every region and every era of the United States in this encyclopediac volume, except for Alaska and Hawaii. The indigenous people of Hawaii are not counted as Native American; it is uncertain why the Native Americans of Alaska were not included. All the profits from this book are being donated to the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, a part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

The thing that strikes me is that each essay was written by a tribal member or scholar who is especially knowledgeable about, and connected to, the particular site they write about. The overall organization of the book is based on both geography and theme; each section is comprised of several feature essays focusing on the themes important to the regiopn, along with numerous short essays that are numbered and keyed to a map for easy location by the reader. Before getting into the regions, there are some introductory essays with a historic focus (precontact to 1900) that set the overall context for the book. The regions in general correspond to the usual culture areas of Plains, Southwest, etc., and are keyed to several maps breaking the U.S. into five areas corresponding to the five sections of the book.

Section One focuses on 84 sites in the Northeast region, shown in this book as being north of the Ohio River, from the East Coast, westward to Minnesota and the Mississippi River. The feature essays include "Early Mound Builders," "Effigy Mound Builders," "Eastern North America," "King Philip's War," "The Fur Trade," "The Seven Year's War," "Fort Johnson, Johnson Hall, and the Anglo-Mohawk Alliance," "American Indians and the American Revolution," "Fort Stanwix, Oriskany Battlefield, and Newtown Battlefield," "Under Treaty Oaks: Lingering Shadows of Unfinished Business," "Manoominike: Making Wild Rice," "The Black Hawk War," "American Indian Boarding Schools," and "Reformers."

Section Two focuses on 108 sites (#85-192) in the Southeast region, shown in this book as being from the East Coast westward to the Mississippi River, eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The feature essays include "Sacred Places and Visitor Protocols," "Florida's Native American Heritage," "Three Places in the Domain of the Calusa," "Mississippian: A Way of Life," "The Rise and Fall of the Mississippians," "Franciscan Design for the Native People of La Florida," "Trail of Tears National Historic Trail: The Forced Removal of the Cherokee," "Removal and Recovery," "Constitutional Government Among the Five Civilized Tribes," and "American Indians and the Civil War."

Section Three focuses on 59 sites (#193-251) in the northern Prairie-Plains region, shown in this book as being from the Mississippi River area westward to the northern Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming. The feature essays include "People and Place," "Tools from the Earth," "Pictographs and Petroglyphs in Texas," "Buffalo Jumps," "The Myth of Nomadism and Indigenous Lands," "The Dakota in Minnesota 1851-1862," and "The Battle of the Little Bighorn." My own short essay is in this section: #214: "Blood Run National Historic Landmark, IA: Peace on the Prairie;" I am a member of the Ioway tribe who celebrated the Pipe Dance here along with several other tribes.

Section Four focuses on 68 sites (#252-319) in the Southwest, from Colorado and New Mexico westward to Nevada. The feature essays include "Places and Spaces," "Great Basin Indigenous Places," "Petroglyphs and Pictographs in the Great Basin," "Expanding the Dialogue Between American Indians and Non-Indian Archaeologists," "The Hohokam: People of the Desert," "The Fremont," "Ancestral Pueblo Peoples," "The People of the Mimbres Mogollon Region," "Chacoans Away From Home: Chacoan Outlying Communities," "Seven Great House Communities of the Chacoan Era," "The Chaco Meridian," "The Pueblo Diaspora," "The Sinagua," "So Far and Yet So Near," "The Elusive Salado," "American Indians' Spirituality and Land Use," "The History of the Pueblo Indians," "Wisdom Sits in Places," and "Tree Ring and Radiocarbon Dating."

Section Five focuses on 46 sites (#320-366) in the Far West, including California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and a small portion of western Montana. The feature essays include "Native Californians," "Founding a Tribal Museum: The Malki Museum," "California Missions," "Our Final Place," "The Nez Perce Before 1876," "The Nez Perce Since 1876," and "Contemporary American Indian Identity and Place."

This is really a magnum opus from Mrs. Kennedy. This is not the kind of book you just sit down and read from cover to cover, but peruse and study according to your interests. It is highly recommended for this interested in traveling to Native American sites, as well as those with an interest in American history and archaeology, Native American studies and traditions, or just learning more about the history of the places where they live. A must-have for schools and libraries! ... Read more