Lost on the Freedom Trail: The National Park Service and Urban Renewal in Postwar Boston

"By showing how the entanglements of race, place, and wealth have played out at Boston National Historic Park, Bruggeman helps to clarify how racialized power reproduces itself and how it is sedimented in institutional practices of preservation and commemoration."-Cathy Stanton, author of The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City

"Based on exhaustive research and written in a lively, accessible style, Lost on the Freedom Trail provides valuable insight into the profitability of preservation and heritage tourism, and the synergies and tensions created from establishing a national historic park within a living urban center."-Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, coeditor of Legacy Cities: Continuity and Change amid Decline and Revival

"Lost on the Freedom Trail reaffirms the assertion that because our understanding of the past has consistently undergone evolutions, it will continue to do so. This book will do well in the hands of people who want to be onsite when that change happens"-Rebecca Brenner Graham, New England Quarterly