Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download History Of The Virginia Daughters Of The American Revolution 1891 1987 full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online History Of The Virginia Daughters Of The American Revolution 1891 1987 ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Eric Grundset
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book American Genealogical Research at the DAR, Washington, D.C. written by Eric Grundset and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Lynn Bayliss
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939992
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Dooleys of Richmond written by Mary Lynn Bayliss and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South. While most Irish Catholic immigrants who poured into the region in the nineteenth century were poor and illiterate, John and Sarah Dooley were affluent and well educated. They brought sophistication and capital to Virginia, where John established one of the largest hat manufacturing companies in the United States. Noted for their business acumen and community service, the Dooleys became leaders in business, education, culture, and politics in Virginia. A bellwether of the South during these tumultuous times, the Dooleys' fortunes would rise and fall and rise again. Mary Lynn Bayliss recounts the family’s history during their prosperous antebellum years, John and his sons’ service in the Confederate army, John’s exploits as leader of the Richmond Ambulance Committee, and the loss of the entire Dooley retail and manufacturing operations during the final days of the Civil War. After the war the Dooleys’ son James, a leading Richmond lawyer and philanthropist, devoted half a century to developing railroad networks across the United States, and became a key figure in the industrialization of the New South. He and his wife, Sallie, built Maymont, the famed Gilded Age estate that remains a major attraction in Richmond. The story of the Dooleys is a fascinating window on southern society and the people who shaped its grand and turbulent history.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January and February, 1925 volumes bound together as one.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421400308
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Faces of the Confederacy written by Ronald S. Coddington and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Extensive research, fascinating characters . . . The author has done an admirable job of literally placing a face on the ordinary Confederate soldier.” —The Journal of Southern History “The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers,” writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers—young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor—who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collector of Civil War-era photography, conducted a monumental search for these previously unpublished portrait cards, then unearthed the personal stories of their subjects, putting a human face on a war rife with inhuman atrocities. The Civil War took the lives of twenty-two of every hundred men who served. Coddington follows the exhausted survivors as they return home to occupied cities and towns, ravaged farmlands, a destabilized economy, and a social order in the midst of upheaval. This book is a haunting and moving tribute to those brave men. Like its companion volume, Faces of the Civil War: An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories, this book offers readers a unique perspective on the war and contributes to a better understanding of the role of the common soldier. “With his meticulous research and a journalist’s eye for good stories, Ron Coddington has brought new life to Civil War photographic portraits of obscure and long-forgotten Confederates whose wartime experiences might otherwise have been lost to history.” —Bob Zeller, cofounder and president of the nonprofit Center for Civil War Photography
Author : Kevin T. Barksdale
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813154030
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Lost State of Franklin written by Kevin T. Barksdale and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Revolutionary War, the young American nation was in a state of chaos. Citizens pleaded with government leaders to reorganize local infrastructures and heighten regulations, but economic turmoil, Native American warfare, and political unrest persisted. By 1784, one group of North Carolina frontiersmen could no longer stand the unresponsiveness of state leaders to their growing demands. This ambitious coalition of Tennessee Valley citizens declared their region independent from North Carolina, forming the state of Franklin. The Lost State of Franklin: America's First Secession chronicles the history of this ill-fated movement from its origins in the early settlement of East Tennessee to its eventual violent demise. Author Kevin T. Barksdale investigates how this lost state failed so ruinously, examining its history and tracing the development of its modern mythology. The Franklin independence movement emerged from the shared desires of a powerful group of landed elite, yeoman farmers, and country merchants. Over the course of four years they managed to develop a functioning state government, court system, and backcountry bureaucracy. Cloaking their motives in the rhetoric of the American Revolution, the Franklinites aimed to defend their land claims, expand their economy, and eradicate the area's Native American population. They sought admission into the union as America's fourteenth state, but their secession never garnered support from outside the Tennessee Valley. Confronted by Native American resistance and the opposition of the North Carolina government, the state of Franklin incited a firestorm of partisan and Indian violence. Despite a brief diplomatic flirtation with the nation of Spain during the state's final days, the state was never able to recover from the warfare, and Franklin collapsed in 1788. East Tennesseans now regard the lost state of Franklin as a symbol of rugged individualism and regional exceptionalism, but outside the region the movement has been largely forgotten. The Lost State of Franklin presents the complete history of this defiant secession and examines the formation of its romanticized local legacy. In reevaluating this complex political movement, Barksdale sheds light on a remarkable Appalachian insurrection and reminds readers of the extraordinary, fragile nature of America's young independence.
Author : Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical and Genealogical Works written by Daughters of the American Revolution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francesca Morgan
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876933
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America written by Francesca Morgan and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation. Francesca Morgan finds the first stirrings of a sense of national patriotism--of "these United States--in the work of black and white clubwomen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Morgan demonstrates that hundreds of thousands of women in groups such as the Woman's Relief Corps, the National Association of Colored Women, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Daughters of the American Revolution sought to produce patriotism on a massive scale in the absence of any national emergency. They created holidays like Confederate Memorial Day, placed American flags in classrooms, funded monuments and historic markers, and preserved old buildings and battlegrounds. Morgan argues that while clubwomen asserted women's importance in cultivating national identity and participating in public life, white groups and black groups did not have the same nation in mind and circumscribed their efforts within the racial boundaries of their time. Presenting a truly national history of these generally understudied groups, Morgan proves that before the government began to show signs of leadership in patriotic projects in the 1930s, women's organizations were the first articulators of American nationalism.
Author : Donald G. Shomette
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886706
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters Along the Delmarva Coast, 1632–2004 written by Donald G. Shomette and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the accounts of twenty-five ill-starred vessels -- some notorious and some forgotten until now -- this anthology provides a fascinating history of a local maritime culture and charts how the catastrophic events along the Delmarva coast significantly affected U.S. merchant shipping as a whole.
Author : Josephus Nelson Larned
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Literature of American History written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Virginia State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution written by Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Elliott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169966
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Surviving the Winters written by Steven Elliott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge form an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revolution. Such winter camps, Steven Elliott tells us in Surviving the Winters, were also a critical factor in the waging and winning of the War of Independence. Exploring the inner workings of the Continental Army through the prism of its encampments, this book is the first to show how camp construction and administration played a crucial role in Patriot strategy during the war. As Elliott reminds us, Washington’s troops spent only a few days a year in combat. The rest of the time, especially in the winter months, they were engaged in a different sort of battle—against the elements, unfriendly terrain, disease, and hunger. Victory in that more sustained struggle depended on a mastery of camp construction, logistics, and health and hygiene—the components that Elliott considers in his environmental, administrative, and operational investigation of the winter encampments at Middlebrook, Morristown, West Point, New Windsor, and Valley Forge. Beyond the encampments’ basic function of sheltering soldiers, his study reveals their importance as a key component of Washington’s Fabian strategy: stationed on secure, mountainous terrain close to New York, the camps allowed the Continental commander-in-chief to monitor the enemy but avoid direct engagement, thus neutralizing a numerically superior opponent while husbanding his own strength. Documenting the growth of Washington and his subordinates as military administrators, Surviving the Winters offers a telling new perspective on the commander’s generalship during the Revolutionary War. At the same time, the book demonstrates that these winter encampments stand alongside more famous battlefields as sites where American independence was won.
Author :
Publisher : S. E. Grose
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Greenbrier County WV Heritage 1997 written by and published by S. E. Grose. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher : Harrisbury, Pa. ; [Washington, D.C.] : Harrisburg Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution written by Daughters of the American Revolution and published by Harrisbury, Pa. ; [Washington, D.C.] : Harrisburg Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James J. Gigantino, II
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246497
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Ragged Road to Abolition written by James J. Gigantino, II and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the last northern state to pass an abolition statute, in 1804. Because of the nature of the law, which freed children born to enslaved mothers only after they had served their mother's master for more than two decades, slavery continued in New Jersey through the Civil War. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 finally destroyed its last vestiges. The Ragged Road to Abolition chronicles the experiences of slaves and free blacks, as well as abolitionists and slaveholders, during slavery's slow northern death. Abolition in New Jersey during the American Revolution was a contested battle, in which constant economic devastation and fears of freed blacks overrunning the state government limited their ability to gain freedom. New Jersey's gradual abolition law kept at least a quarter of the state's black population in some degree of bondage until the 1830s. The sustained presence of slavery limited African American community formation and forced Jersey blacks to structure their households around multiple gradations of freedom while allowing New Jersey slaveholders to participate in the interstate slave trade until the 1850s. Slavery's persistence dulled white understanding of the meaning of black freedom and helped whites to associate "black" with "slave," enabling the further marginalization of New Jersey's growing free black population. By demonstrating how deeply slavery influenced the political, economic, and social life of blacks and whites in New Jersey, this illuminating study shatters the perceived easy dichotomies between North and South or free states and slave states at the onset of the Civil War.
Author : Illinois State Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Publications written by Illinois State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
