Harpers Ferry National Historical Park by James A Beckman

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park by James A Beckman

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park is a jewel of America's National Park Service. Established by legislation and signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1944, today the park encompasses thousands of acres spanning three states as well as the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. While the town was ravaged by repeated floods and war, it rose like a phoenix from the ashes. As a Civil War soldier presciently wrote, In future years travelers and tourists will eagerly resort here] . . . and history will point out this] spot where many acts of the great tragedy, not yet closed, took place. This book chronicles the creation and development of the national park in Harpers Ferry, a park that now affords hundreds of thousands of visitors each year the opportunity to marvel at the same scenery Thomas Jefferson said was worth a voyage across the Atlantic to see and to be able to walk the old streets where so many major acts of American history took place.

James A. Beckman is a law and justice associate professor at the University of Tampa in Florida. He is the editor of Affirmative Action: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood 2004), which has been hailed as inspirational and vital by reviewers.

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ISBN 13	9781540243645
ISBN 10	1540243648
Title	Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Author	James A Beckman
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Year published	2020-08-10
Number of pages	130
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