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Book Synopsis A Tale of Two Colonies by : Virginia Bernhard
Download or read book A Tale of Two Colonies written by Virginia Bernhard and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subject: In this fascinating tale of England's first two New World colonies, Bernhard links Virginia and Bermuda in a series of unintended consequences resulting from natural disaster, ignorance of native cultures, diplomatic intrigue, and the fateful arrival of the first Africans in both colonies. --from publisher description
Book Synopsis Virginia: History, Government, Geography by : Francis Butler Simkins
Download or read book Virginia: History, Government, Geography written by Francis Butler Simkins and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis It Happened in Virginia by : Emilee Hines
Download or read book It Happened in Virginia written by Emilee Hines and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of thirty-five compelling stories about events that shaped Old Dominion, It Happened in Virginia describes everything from the invention of America's original instrument, the banjo, to how Stonewall Jackson acquired his nickname.
Book Synopsis It Happened in West Virginia by : Rick Steelhammer
Download or read book It Happened in West Virginia written by Rick Steelhammer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Happened in West Virginia takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Mountain State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Book Synopsis A Murder in Virginia by : Suzanne Lebsock
Download or read book A Murder in Virginia written by Suzanne Lebsock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the events surrounding the dramatic post-Civil War trial of a young African American sawmill hand who was accused of ax murdering a white woman on her Virginia farmyard and who implicated three other women in the crime.
Book Synopsis It Happened in Virginia by : Elizabeth R. Gibson
Download or read book It Happened in Virginia written by Elizabeth R. Gibson and published by TwoDot. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colorful events in Virginia's history for a cross-over audience.
Book Synopsis Hidden History of Northern Virginia by : Charles A. Mills
Download or read book Hidden History of Northern Virginia written by Charles A. Mills and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had General George Washington lived anywhere other than Mount Vernon, Virginia, Washington, D.C., might not exist. In this exciting collection of hidden tales from Northern Virginia, author Charles Mills highlights the important role that this region played in our nation's history from colonial to modern times. Read about the Rebel blockade of the Potomac River, the imprisonment of German POWs at super-secret Fort Hunt during World War II and the building of the Pentagon on the same site and in the same configuration as Civil War, era Fort Runyon. Meet Annandale's "bunny man, "? who inspired one of the country's wildest and scariest urban legends; learn about the slaves in Alexandria's notorious slave pens; and witness suffragists being dragged from the White House lawn and imprisoned in the Occoquan workhouse. Mills masterfully relates these and other colorful tales of the people and events that left their imprints on Northern Virginia and the nation.
Book Synopsis The Invasion of Virginia 1781 by : Michael Cecere
Download or read book The Invasion of Virginia 1781 written by Michael Cecere and published by Journal of the American Revolu. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the sixth year of the American Revolution, Britain determined that Virginia would be the key to subduing the entire rebellion. The American War for Independence was fought in nearly every colony, but some colonies witnessed far more conflict than others. In the first half of the war, the bulk of military operations were concentrated in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Following the battle at Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey, in 1778, British strategy moved to the South, where their armies clashed with Continental troops in Georgia and South Carolina. Surprisingly, Virginia saw little fighting up to this point in the war. This changed suddenly in 1781, when the turncoat Benedict Arnold led 1,600 seasoned British troops on a successful raid up the James River to Richmond, destroying Patriot property along the way. Arnold's bold stroke demonstrated Virginia's vulnerability to attack and the possibility that the colonies could be divided and subdued piecemeal. British General Henry Clinton decided to reinforce Arnold in Virginia, while events in North Carolina, including the battle of Guilford Courthouse, convinced British General Charles Cornwallis that defeating the Patriots in Virginia was the key to ending the war. As historian Michael Cecere relates in The Invasion of Virginia 1781, the war's arrival in the largest colony had unintended consequences for Cornwallis and his powerful British force. -- Inside jacket flap.
Book Synopsis The History and Present State of Virginia by : Robert Beverley
Download or read book The History and Present State of Virginia written by Robert Beverley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Book Synopsis Notes on the State of Virginia by : Thomas Jefferson
Download or read book Notes on the State of Virginia written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia 1619 written by Paul Musselwhite and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident.
Book Synopsis Son of Virginia by : L. Douglas Wilder
Download or read book Son of Virginia written by L. Douglas Wilder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981, the Commonwealth of Virginia, which had been dominated for decades by “the Organization,” a political machine led by former Governor and U.S. Senator Harry Byrd Sr., took its first baby steps to becoming the vibrant state it is today. That year, Charles Robb rejected the machine and began a new Democratic Party in his campaign for governor. Instead of running against African Americans, Robb reached out to Douglas Wilder, the state’s only African American State Senator and other leaders in the African American Community to rally voters of color to support the Democratic ticket. With the help of a heavy African American turnout, Robb won and the Byrd machine was crushed. In 1985, just four years later, Doug Wilder won the party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor against the cries of “Virginia isn’t ready” and, later that year, defied the naysayers by being elected to that office. Within five years, he would be sworn in as the first elected African American governor in American history. SON OF VIRGINIA by L. Douglas Wilder details the events of the author’s life to paint a portrait of the changing face of America. It will be a story of constant struggle and conflict, not only Wilder’s struggle, but also that of courageous people who stood up to decades of discrimination, corruption and greed. The book will stand as a road map for continued American progress in our elections and laws and a stark warning of what may happen if we relax our commitment to this program.
Book Synopsis It Happened in Virginia by : Emilee Hines
Download or read book It Happened in Virginia written by Emilee Hines and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at approximately 30 events that shaped the Old Dominion, from the first years of the English settlement to the recent discovery of far earlier habitation.
Book Synopsis Virginia State Penitentiary: A Notorious History by : Dale M. Brumfield
Download or read book Virginia State Penitentiary: A Notorious History written by Dale M. Brumfield and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed by U.S. Capitol and White House architect Benjamin Latrobe, the "Pen" opened its doors in 1800. Vice President Aaron Burr was incarcerated there in 1807 as he awaited trial for treason. The prison endured severe overcrowding, three fires, an earthquake and numerous riots. More than 240 prisoners were executed there by electric chair. At one time, the ACLU called it the "most shameful prison in America." The institution was plagued by racial injustice, eugenics experiments and the presence of children imprisoned among adults. Join author Dale Brumfield as he charts the 190-year history of the iconic prison.
Book Synopsis The History of Virginia by : Robert Beverley
Download or read book The History of Virginia written by Robert Beverley and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, & the Summer Isles by : Smith
Download or read book The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, & the Summer Isles written by Smith and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis We're Still Here by : Sandra F. Waugaman
Download or read book We're Still Here written by Sandra F. Waugaman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last! Virginia Indians provide readers with a candid account of their living history, insight to cultural traditions, and vision for the future. Topics Include: archeological digs; traditional regalia; pow wows; Indian life today; The Virginia Council on Indians; local reservations; Virginia-recognized tribes; museums; other resources including Web sites and educational programs. Book jacket.
