TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Meredith Mason ED - Project Muse. TI - Touching America's history: from the Pequot War through World War II SN - 9780253008442 AV - E159.5 .B76 2013 U1 - 973 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Material culture KW - United States KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p.[253]-261)and index; Prologue : history through things you can touch -- Axe head, adze head -- A compass, a rifle, and the opening of the West -- Yr Most obt Servt, G. Washington -- Daguerreotype and sword -- Shavings from a scaffold -- Diaries from Indian Country -- Travels of an English pistol -- A court-martial in the Philippines -- A medal from General Pershing -- The czar of Halfaday Creek and Hitler's toilet bowl UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253008442/ ER -