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| Title | : | First City |
| Author | : | Gary B. Nash |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 385 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0812219422 |
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America s collective memory By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn s greene countrie town was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America s collective memory By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn s greene countrie town was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in Philadelphia The city served off and on as the official capital of the young country until 1800, and was also the site of the first American university, hospital, medical college, bank, paper mill, zoo, sugar refinery, public school, and government mint.In First City, acclaimed historian Gary B Nash examines the complex process of memory making in this most historic of American cities Though history is necessarily written from the evidence we have of the past, as Nash shows, rarely is that evidence preserved without intent, nor is it equally representative Full of surprising anecdotes, First City reveals how Philadelphians from members of elite cultural institutions, such as historical societies and museums, to relatively anonymous groups, such as women, racial and religious minorities, and laboring people have participated in the very partisan activity of transmitting historical memory from one generation to the next
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Gary B Nash received his B A from Princeton University in 1955 and his Ph.D from Princeton in 1964 He earned the position of Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught colonial and revolutionary American history since 1974 Nash has been the Director of the National Center for History in the Schools sinc 1994 and co Gary B Nash received his B A from Princeton University in 1955 and his Ph.D from Princeton in 1964 He earned the position of Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught colonial and revolutionary American history since 1974 Nash has been the Director of the National Center for History in the Schools sinc 1994 and co chaired the National History Standards Project from 1992 1996 His past positions include Dean of Undergraduate and Intercollege Curricular Development, University of California, Los Angeles President, Organization of American Historians Dean, Council on Educational Development, University of California, Los Angeles Assistant Professor, Department of History, Princeton University He has received research grants from the University of California Institute of Humanities and American Philosophical Society and fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial and American Council of Learned Society Nash was elected member of American Antiquarian Society, Society of American Historians, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as winning the University of California Distinguished Emeriti Award and the Defense of Academic Freedom Award, from the National Council for Social Studies Nash is the Founding Member and has been on the Board of Trustees of the National Council for History Education since 1990 and was Vice Chair in 1992 He was also President of the Organization of American Historians, from 1994 95, the Primary History Consultant for the Schlessinger Production series in United States History, from 1996 97, he was on the University of California Bicentennial Committee, from 1975 76 and was an Historical Consultant and Writer for Lights of Liberty, sound and light tour, Philadelphia, PA, in 1999 Among the books Nash has authored are Quakers and Politics Pennsylvania, 1681 1726 1968 Red, White and Black The Peoples of Early America 1974, 1982 The Urban Crucible Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution 1979 and Forging Freedom The Black Urban Experience in Philadelphia, 1720 1840 1988 
The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution
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With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America s collective memory By the middle of the eighteenth century W
385 pagesGary B. Nash
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