Giving preservation a history: histories of historic preservation in the United States

"Charleston Is Largely A Matter Of Feeling" : Personal Politics, Preservation, and Power / Stephanie E. Yuhl -- Combatting Decline : Preservation and Community Development in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati / Stephanie Webster-Ryberg -- The Dunbar High School Dilemma : Architecture, Power, and African American Cultural Heritage / Amber N. Wiley.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Giving Preservation a History -- I Chapters from the First Edition -- Chapter 1 Rethinking the Roots of the Historic Preservation Movement -- Chapter 2 Roots in Boston, Branches in Planning and Parks -- Chapter 3 "A Spirit that Fires the Imagination -- Chapter 4 Historic Preservation, Public Memory, and the Making of Modern New York City -- Chapter 5 Marketing the Past -- Chapter 6 Place over Time -- Chapter 7 Chicago's Mecca Flat Blues -- II New Chapters for the Second Edition -- Chapter 8 "Charleston Is Largely a Matter of Feeling -- Chapter 9 Combatting Decline -- Chapter 10 The Dunbar High School Dilemma -- Chapter 11 "Exciting Alternatives to Demolition -- Chapter 12 Taking Action -- Chapter 13 Historic Preservation Was Never Static -- III By Way of Concluding the Second Edition -- Chapter 14 Moving Forward -- Chapter 15 Epilogue -- Contributors -- Index.