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Tim Grove - A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History - 9780803249721 - V9780803249721
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A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History

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Description for A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History Paperback.

For more than twenty years, Tim Grove has worked at the most popular history museums in the United States, helping millions of people get acquainted with the past. This book translates that experience into an insider’s tour of some of the most interesting moments in American history. Grove’s stories are populated with well-known historical figures such as John Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea—as well as the not-so-famous. Have you heard of Mary Pickersgill, seamstress of the Star-Spangled Banner flag? Grove also has something to say about a few of our cherished myths, for instance, the lore ... Read more

Grove takes readers to historic sites such as Harpers Ferry, Fort McHenry, the Ulm Pishkun buffalo jump, and the Lemhi Pass on the Lewis and Clark Trail and traverses time and space from eighteenth-century Williamsburg to the twenty-first-century Kennedy Space Center. En route from Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic to Cape Disappointment on the Pacific, we learn about planting a cotton patch on the National Mall, riding a high wheel bicycle, flying the transcontinental airmail route, and harnessing a mule. Is history relevant? This book answers with a resounding yes and, in the most entertaining fashion, shows us why.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803249721
SKU
V9780803249721
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Tim Grove
Tim Grove is chief of museum learning at the National Air and Space Museum. He is the coauthor of The Museum Educator's Manual and received the 2008 Smithsonian Individual Achievement in Education Award.

Reviews for A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History
"Grove's book is both an inspiration and a template for those who want to kick history out of the attic and put it back where it belongs: in the national living room, slightly to the left of the television."—James Norton, Washington Post "Though he's not fond of battlefield re-enactments, Grove thoroughly enjoys re-creating the past with appropriate objects. Essentially about ... Read more

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