America's Hidden Battlefields Protecting the Archeological Story
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Fort Ticonderoga, New York, changed hands several times during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. By 1905, the fort was in ruins.
America's Hidden Battlefields: Protecting the Archeological Story by the National Park Service (American Battlefield Protection Program) & The Society for Historical Archaeology. (1999) U.S. Department of the Interior.
Archeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined by Richard Allen Fox. (1993) University of Oklahoma Press.
Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. (1994) Faber & Faber.
Following extensive archeological investigations, Fort Ticonderoga was reconstructed and opened to the public in 1909.Look to the Earth: Historical Archeology and the American Civil War by Clarence R. Geier and Susan E. Winter (editors). (1996) University of Tennessee Press.
On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archeology of the U.S.– Mexican
War Battlefield
by Charles M. Haecker and Jeffrey G. Mauck. (1997) Texas A&M University Press.
Whom We Would Never More See: History and Archeology Recover the Lives and Deaths of African American Civil War Soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina by Steven D. Smith. (1993) Topics in African American History No. 3, South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
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