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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     Table of Contents         Discover more across the Smithsonian     Diamant, Rolf     Olmsted, Frederick Law,     Olmsted, Frederick Law,     National parks and reserves -- History     Parks -- History     Parks -- History     National parks and reserves     Slavery     Parcs nationaux -- Histoire.     Parcs nationaux     Esclavage     National parks and reserves     Parks     Slavery     Yosemite Valley (Calif.)     Yosemite National Park (Calif.)     Central Park (New York, N.Y.)     Yosemite, Valľe de (Calif.)     Yosemite National Park (Calif.)     Central Park (New York, N.Y.)     California     California     New York (State)     New York (State)     United States     History     Carr, Ethan,       MARC Display

Olmsted and Yosemite civil war, abolition, and the national park idea / Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr   Author:  Diamant, Rolf author Title:  Olmsted and Yosemite civil war, abolition, and the national park idea / Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr Publisher:  Amherst, Massachusetts Library of American Landscape History [2022] Copyright:  ©2022 Description:  186 pages illustrations 25 cm Summary:  A different narrative of the founding of the national park system. For far too long, all the credit for the national parks has been vested with either mythic "rugged Western pioneers" or a "visionary" like John Muir or Theodore Roosevelt. It is time to revisit Olmsted's Yosemite Report and its enduring vision of popular government using its resources to improve people's lives as an important element to those who fought for a new birth of American freedom. Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr demonstrate how anti-slavery activism, war, and the remaking of the federal government gave rise to the American public park and concept of national parks. The authors closely examine Frederick Law Olmsted's 1865 Yosemite Report--the key document that expresses the aspirational vision of making great public parks keystone institutions of a renewed liberal democracy. Both Central Park in New York and Yosemite Valley in California became public parks during the tumultuous years before and during the Civil War" -- Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical reference (pages [151]-165) and index Contents:  Introduction: three landscapes -- Abolishing slavery and building Central Park -- Remaking government and the Yosemite Grant -- National parks and a National Park Service -- Conclusion: campfire tales -- Prelimary report upon the Yosemite and Big Tree Grove by Fredericak Law Olmsted, August 1865 Local Note:  NMAHMAI copy 39088019743020 gift of Jacqueline Vossler Subject:  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 National parks and reserves -- United States -- History Parks -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Parks -- California -- Yosemite Valley -- History National parks and reserves -- United States Slavery -- United States Parcs nationaux -- �tats-Unis -- Histoire. Parcs nationaux -- �tats-Unis. Esclavage -- �tats-Unis. National parks and reserves Parks Slavery Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- History Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- History Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History Yosemite, Valľe de (Calif.) -- Histoire. Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Histoire. Central Park (New York, N.Y.) -- Histoire. California -- Yosemite National Park California -- Yosemite Valley New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Central Park United States Genre:  History Added Author:  Carr, Ethan, 1958- author ISBN:  9781952620348 1952620341 Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   F868.Y6 D48 2022 American History, National Museum of 39088019743020 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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