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Author : George Wesley Atkinson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prominent Men of West Virginia written by George Wesley Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men of West Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Green
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192092
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Devil Is Here in These Hills written by James Green and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most comprehensive and comprehendible history of the West Virginia Coal War I’ve ever read.” —John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan On September 1, 1912, the largest, most protracted, and deadliest working-class uprising in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were fifty thousand mine workers, the nation’s largest labor union, and the legendary “miners’ angel,” Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis that verged on civil war, stretching from the creeks and hollows of the Appalachians to the US Senate. Attempts to unionize were met with stiff resistance. Fundamental rights were bent—then broken. The violence evolved from bloody skirmishes to open armed conflict, as an army of more than fifty thousand miners finally marched to an explosive showdown. Extensively researched and vividly told, this definitive book about an often-overlooked chapter of American history, “gives this backwoods struggle between capital and labor the due it deserves. [Green] tells a dark, often despairing story from a century ago that rings true today” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).
Author : Mark A. Snell
Publisher : Civil War
ISBN 13 : 9781596298880
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (988 download)
Download or read book West Virginia and the Civil War written by Mark A. Snell and published by Civil War. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on each side. The Mountain State also saw its fair share of battles, skirmishes, raids and guerrilla warfare, with places like Harpers Ferry, Philippi and Rich Mountain becoming household names in 1861. When the Commonwealth of Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861, leaders primarily from the northwestern region of the state began the political process that eventually led to the creation of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Renowned Civil War historian Mark A. Snell has written the first thorough history of these West Virginians and their civil war in more than fifty years.
Author : Biographical Publishing Company Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780795048067
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Men of West Virginia written by Biographical Publishing Company Staff and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Mellott
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700627537
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Seventh West Virginia Infantry written by David W. Mellott and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though calling itself “The Bloody Seventh” after only a few minor skirmishes, the Seventh West Virginia Infantry earned its nickname many times over during the course of the Civil War. Fighting in more battles and suffering more losses than any other West Virginia regiment, the unit was the most embattled Union regiment in the most divided state in the war. Its story, as it unfolds in this book, is a key chapter in the history of West Virginia, the only state created as a direct result of the Civil War. It is also the story of the citizen soldiers, most of them from Appalachia, caught up in the bloodiest conflict in American history. The Seventh West Virginia fought in the major campaigns in the eastern theater, from Winchester, Antietam, and Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Petersburg. Weaving military, social, and political history, The Seventh West Virginia Infantry details strategy, tactics, battles, campaigns, leaders, and the travails of the rank and file. It also examines the circumstances surrounding events, mundane and momentous alike such as the soldiers’ views on the Emancipation Proclamation, West Virginia Statehood, and Lincoln’s re-election. The product of decades of research, the book uses statistical analysis to profile the Seventh’s soldiers from a socio-economic, military, medical, and personal point of view; even as its authors consult dozens of primary sources, including soldiers’ living descendants, to put a human face on these “sons of the mountains.” The result is a multilayered view, unique in its scope and depth, of a singular Union regiment on and off the Civil War battlefield—its beginnings, its role in the war, and its place in history and memory.
Author : Phyllis Schlafly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890626655
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Supremacists written by Phyllis Schlafly and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gravest threat to American democracy is the supreme power of judges over political, social, and economic policy. In this revised and expanded edition of The Supremacists, Phyllis Schlafly exposes the courts' fifty-year conquest of legislative authority, made possible by presidents, congressmen, and voters who surrendered without a fight. The Supremacists is both a warning that self-government is in peril and a plan of action for ending the tyranny of judges. Book jacket.
Author : Darla Spencer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467118516
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture written by Darla Spencer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the rich bottomlands of southern West Virginia during the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric periods. Lost to time and rediscovered in the 1880s, Fort Ancient sites dot the West Virginia landscape. This volume explores sixteen of these sites, including Buffalo, Logan and Orchard. Archaeologist Darla Spencer excavates the fascinating lives of some of the Mountain State's earliest inhabitants in search of who these people were, what languages they spoke and who their descendants may be.
Author : Mesha Maren
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643752219
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Perpetual West written by Mesha Maren and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stunning . . . A forceful addition to the literature of the U.S.-Mexican border and its ongoing history of tragedy and joy.” —Jennifer Clement, The New York Times Book Review “Suspenseful, seductive . . . A thrill ride from cover to cover.” —Oprah Daily, “The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022” The riveting new novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar Run, Perpetual West is a brilliant and evocative story of borders—between countries, between lovers, and between facets of the self. When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry to learn about the place where he was born. He spends every free moment across the border in Juárez—perfecting his Spanish, hanging with a collective of young activists, and studying lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) for his graduate work in sociology. Meanwhile Elana, busy fighting her own demons, feels disillusioned by academia and has stopped going to class. And though they are best friends, Elana has no idea that Alex has fallen in love with Mateo, a lucha libre fighter. When Alex goes missing and Elana can’t determine whether he left of his own accord or was kidnapped, it’s clear that neither of them has been honest about who they are. Spanning their journey from Virginia to Texas to Mexico, Mesha Maren’s thrilling follow-up to Sugar Run takes us from missionaries to wrestling matches to a luxurious cartel compound, and deep into the psychic choices that shape our identities. A sweeping novel that tells us as much about our perceptions of the United States and Mexico as it does about our own natures and desires, Perpetual West is a fiercely intelligent and engaging look at the false divide between high and low culture, and a suspenseful story of how harrowing events can bring our true selves to the surface.
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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Men of West Virginia ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Otis K. Rice
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813118543
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)
Download or read book West Virginia written by Otis K. Rice and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " An essential resource for scholars, students, and all lovers of the Mountaineer State. From bloody skirmishes with Indians on the early frontier to the Logan County mine war, the story of West Virginia is punctuated with episodes as colorful and rugged as the mountains that dominate its landscape. In this first modern comprehensive history, Otis Rice and Stephen Brown balance these episodes of mountaineer individualism against the complexities of industrial development and the growth of social institutions, analyzing the events and personalities that have shaped the state. To create this history, the authors weave together many strands from the past and present. Included among these are geological and geographical features; the prehistoric inhabitants; exploration and settlement; relations with the Indians; the land systems and patterns of ownership; the Civil War and the formation of the state from the western counties of Virginia; the legacy of Reconstruction; politics and government; industrial development; labor problems and advances; and cultural aspects such as folkways, education, religion, and national and ethnic influences. For this second edition, the authors have added a new chapter, bringing the original material up to date and carrying the West Virginia story through the presidential election of 1992. Otis K. Rice is professor emeritus of history and Stephen W. Brown is professor of history at West Virginia Institute of Technology.
Author : James Morton Callahan
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Total Pages : 1342 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of West Virginia, Old and New written by James Morton Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gray Barker
Publisher : Illuminet Press
ISBN 13 : 9781881532101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)
Download or read book They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers written by Gray Barker and published by Illuminet Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salamishah Tillet
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356853
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book In Search of The Color Purple written by Salamishah Tillet and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing cultural criticism, literary history, biography, and memoir, an exploration of Alice Walker’s critically acclaimed and controversial novel, The Color Purple Alice Walker made history in 1983 when she became the ï¬?rst black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. The Color Purple received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated ï¬?lm and a hit Broadway musical. Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker’s life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. Reading The Color Purple at age 15 was a groundbreaking experience for Tillet. It continues to resonate with her—as a sexual violence survivor, as a teacher of the novel, and as an accomplished academic. Provocative and personal, In Search of The Color Purple is a bold work from an important public intellectual, and captures Alice Walker’s seminal role in rethinking sexuality, intersectional feminism, and racial and gender politics.
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The American Hardware Jobbers' Directory of the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George W. Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780795048234
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Prominent Men of West Virginia written by George W. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
