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Death and rebirth in a southern city
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ISBN: 1421439271 142143928X 9781421439280 9781421439273 Year: 2020 Publisher: Baltimore

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"In Richmond--Virginia's capital and once the capital of the Confederacy--deathways and burial practices have changed dramatically over time, yet the color line for preservation and memorialization held steady until recent activist groups stepped forward to reclaim the commemorative landscape for the remains of people of color. Smith traces the disparities between resting sites that have been well maintained and those that have been worn away, dug up, or built over. A work of public history, this book shows how cemeteries can illustrate changes in politics and society across time"--


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Robert Morris's Folly : The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder
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ISBN: 0300206976 9780300206975 9781322094472 1322094470 0300196040 9780300196047 Year: 2014 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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In 1798 Robert Morris-"financier of the American Revolution," confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator-plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris's wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as "Morris's Folly." Setting Morris's tale in the context of the nation's founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America's ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.

Gothic arches, Latin crosses : anti-Catholicism and American church designs in the nineteenth century.
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ISBN: 0807830259 0807856894 9780807830253 9780807856895 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina press

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