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This land is your land a road trip through U.S. history

"Ride along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage asshe travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn--and fight--about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the...

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Main Author: Gage, Beverly (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Historic sites > United States > Guidebooks.
Collective memory > United States.
Automobile travel > United States > Guidebooks.
Museums > United States > Guidebooks.
Historical reenactments > United States > Guidebooks.
United States > History > Miscellanea.
United States > Historiography.
United States > Description and travel.
United States > Politics and government.
Guidebooks.
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Summary:"Ride along with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Beverly Gage asshe travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn--and fight--about our history. From the birth of the nation in Philadelphia to Disneyland and the California dream, This Land Is Your Land offers a guided tour of thirteen places and thirteen key moments that define America's greatest successes and challenges"--
Physical Description:xxv, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781668033104
1668033100
Author Notes:Beverly Gage teaches American history at Yale. Her book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography. She is also the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror , and writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker , The New York Times , and The Washington Post .

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