Buildings, landscapes, and memory : case studies in historic preservation

Introduction. Buildings, landscapes, and memory -- Patriotism in place : Lafayette's triumphal tour of the United States, 1824-1825 -- Captured by context : architectural innovation and banality at Jefferson's university -- Dutch homesteads in modern Brooklyn : the unused past -- Conservation on the Hudson : saving the Palisades -- The Arch and the neighborhood : marking westward expansion in St. Louis -- Preservation and destruction in Chicago : narrating history while building a city -- Chicago's Mecca flat blues : architecture, music, and race in the politics of place -- A Virginia courthouse square : reviving the colonial -- Drive-by history : Virginia's historic highway marker program -- Toxic history : preservation on EPA Superfund sites.