This is a very good look at National Monuments. It is pictures with narration. This includes some natural wonder, but also many significant places in history. It mostly talks about places managed by the National Park Service. It does center around the North East. It has a fascinating look at Civil War Battlefields and Revolutionary War Battlefields. Also all of the monuments in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area. A few of them I have visited, including grant's Tomb in New York, past the Statue of Liberty, The Capitol Mall is such a wonder, along with the Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, WWII Memorial, Washington Monument, and much more. Independence Hall along with the Liberty Bell are also fascinating. Fort McHenry is another place I have visited. The fort withstood the assault, and thus the British had to abandon their plans of going up the peninsula to Washington.
The pictures of Gettysburg also fascinate me. This is a battlefield I hope to visit. Of course there are other significant battles, but this one includes a two-page mural of the battle. The Chickamauga section is also very interesting. The Battle of Vicksburg was another significant Civil War battle. Speaking of the Civil War For Sumter where the war started, and Appomattox where the war ended are both monuments.
As we head west there are less monuments, but still some very significant ones. This includes Lincoln's birth and burial places, many Native American mounds which are fascinate me. And then the St. Louis Arch and Mount Rushmore and incomparable monuments.
Battle of the Little Big Horn site is remembered as a monument. Also many missions in the southwest, and the Anasazi left the four corners area dotted with monuments one can hardly fathom. Also many old barns have been memorialized, including a beautiful structure at the base to the Tetons. Fort Laramie, and a few other old forts are monuments. Fort Point sits below the Golden Gate Bridge. Scotty's Castle in Death Valley is marvelous. Then of course in Hawaii is the monument to the attack on Pearl Harbor, including the Arizona.
This is a great coffee table book, because these pictures bring history to life.
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