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"Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians and local preservation activities. Trees can serve as important objects of memory, recalling past triumphs or tragedies. They can also be the last living witness to important events or community memories. But they are living entities and therefore defy the kind of preservation applicable to buildings and other inanimate historical objects. Their inherent organic fragility can also create significant problems for historical sites; storm and fire damage, intensified by climate-change, highlight the ways that trees-however historical or beloved-can become considerable threats. The fourteen new, previously unpublished essays in this fascinating volume explore the many ways that trees are an integral part of public history practice and sites. The authors draw on a range of approaches and historiographies to look at how memories of race-based hate, patriotic stories, community identities, and changed places all have centered on trees"--
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Leah S. Glaser is professor of history at Central Connecticut State University. Her books include Interpreting
Energy at Museums and Historic Sites and
Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including
The Public Historian and
Western Historical Quarterly.
Philip Levy is professor of history at University of South Florida and an OAH Distinguished Lecturer. His books include
Yard Birds: The Lives and Times of America's Urban Chickens and
The Permanent Resident: Explorations and Excavations of the Life of George Washington, which won the 2024 James Deetz Book Award. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including
William and Mary Quarterly,
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,
Northeastern Historical Archaeology, and
The Florida Historical Quarterly.
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Trees are not just natural resources; they are also cultural ones that present unique challenges and opportunities for public historians. The fourteen new, previously unpublished essays in this volume explore the many ways that trees are an integral part of public history practice and sites.
