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work_4b7mg2kk5vf5xn5j3txw3rdklq	James Howell	Recasting the Significant: The Transcultural Memory of Alexander von Humboldt's Visit to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C	2016.0	9	.pdf	application/pdf	6252	340	57	Recasting the Significant: The Transcultural Memory of Alexander von Humboldt's Visit to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. humanities an inflated role in current accounts of the life and work of Alexander von Humboldt. Keywords: Alexander von Humboldt; cultural memory; transcultural memory; Thomas Jefferson; American Humboldt literature is the aforementioned visit to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. in the from Humboldt's biography and onto his influence on nineteenth-century American literary culture. that visiting the United States and encountering Thomas Jefferson profoundly affected Humboldt and visiting the United States was no mere fancy for Humboldt on his return journey; indeed, American World." McCullough, like Sachs, begins his account with Humboldt's arrival in the United States Recent American accounts associate Humboldt's imperative to visit the United States with his The second work on Humboldt by a European author for an American audience is Andrea Wulf's In the field of cultural memory studies, an element such as Alexander von Humboldt is best	./cache/work_4b7mg2kk5vf5xn5j3txw3rdklq.pdf	./txt/work_4b7mg2kk5vf5xn5j3txw3rdklq.txt