Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park

✍ Scribed by Paul A. Shackel

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Archaeology can either bolster memory and tradition, or contradict the status quo and provide an alternative view of the past. An archaeology of Harpers Ferry's wartime and Victorian eras confronts time-honored historical interpretations of the past (created and perpetuated by such interest groups as historians and the National Park Service) and in so doing allows us to be more inclusive of the town's forgotten histories and provides alternative voices to a past.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 16
INTRODUCTION: Harpers Ferry: A Place in Time......Page 24
CHAPTER 1 "All About Us Was the Wreckage of the Fighting": Harpers Ferry During the War......Page 40
CHAPTER 2 "A Village of Paupers": An Archaeology of Occupied Harpers Ferry......Page 58
CHAPTER 3 "The Place Never Will Be Anything Again": Lower Town Harpers Ferry and Victorian America......Page 76
CHAPTER 4 "The Handsomest House in Two Towns": Urban Develpment of an Elite Household in Harpers Ferry......Page 98
CHAPTER 5 "The Natural Limits of Human Endurance": Brewery Workers, Bottlers and Labor Unrest......Page 122
CHAPTER 6 "A Miserable Mockery of a Home": Boardinghouse Life in a Lower Town......Page 138
CHAPTER 7 The Assassination of Plurality: Material Wealth and Consumption in Victorian Harpers Ferry......Page 172
References......Page 196
Index......Page 212