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Cradle of America

Author : Peter Wallenstein
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619941
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Cradle of America written by Peter Wallenstein and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation’s early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the “cradle of America.” Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. The second edition is updated with new material throughout, including a new chapter on Virginia and world affairs from the Korean War through 9/11 and beyond, and, an expanded bibliography. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other’s visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia’s leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state’s dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation’s evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Carter G. Woodson, Patsy Cline, and L. Douglas Wilder. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia’s history.

A Tale of Two Colonies

Author : Virginia Bernhard
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826219519
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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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

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles

Author : John Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598359865
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles written by John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

250 Years in Fauquier County

Author : Kathi Ann Brown
Publisher : George Mason University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 250 Years in Fauquier County written by Kathi Ann Brown and published by George Mason University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the early interactions between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, this history traces three and a half centuries of change in Fauquier County, Virginia. Commissioned by the Fauquier Historical Society to commemorate the county's 250th anniversary, this engrossing narrative tells the story of the men and women, black and white, who built the region's farms, plantations, schools, and churches. Individual biographies are interwoven with a social, political, and military history of the American Revolution and Civil War, allowing crucial events in the county's history to come alive. This book also explores Fauquier's depressed economy after the Civil War and shows how the area's location and natural beauty drew wealthy outsiders to purchase estates in the early part of the twentieth century. After midcentury, the enormous expansion of the Washington suburbs ignited a heated and ongoing debate over the county's position on growth and development. Related here is the fascinating story of a historically significant county. The volume has more than two hundred illustrations, some displaying the county's stunning beauty, which enhance the book throughout.

Love and Hate in Jamestown

Author : David A. Price
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742670X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Love and Hate in Jamestown written by David A. Price and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith’s life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.

Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia

Author : Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806306408
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia written by Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1975 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grayson County is famous in southwestern Virginia as the cradle of the New River settlements--perhaps the first settlements beyond the Alleghanies. The Nuckolls book is equally famous for its genealogies of the pioneer settlers of the county, which, typically, provide the names of the progenitors of the Grayson County line and their dates and places of migration and settlement, and then, in fluid progression, the names of all offspring in the direct and sometimes collateral lines of descent. Altogether somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 persons are named in the genealogies and indexed for ready reference.

The History and Present State of Virginia

Author : Robert Beverley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469607956
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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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.

The Story of Virginia's First Century

Author : Mary Newton Stanard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Virginia's First Century written by Mary Newton Stanard and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carter's Grove

Author : Mark R. Wenger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879351298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Carter's Grove written by Mark R. Wenger and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of Scott County, Virginia

Author : Robert M. Addington
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932807670
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book History of Scott County, Virginia written by Robert M. Addington and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with information, this text begins with Scott County territory as claimed by the French prior to 1763. The final chapters include interesting facts and figures from a survey made in 1930. Filling the pages between with great variety, Addington shares an abundance of knowledge.

The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia

Author : William Stith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia written by William Stith and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers events from Columbus to 1621.

To Have and to Hold

Author : Mary, Johnston
Publisher : Aegitas
ISBN 13 : 1773130412
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book To Have and to Hold written by Mary, Johnston and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Have and to Hold (1899) is a novel by American author Mary Johnston. It was the bestselling novel in the United States in the following year (1900). To Have and to Hold is the story of an English soldier, Ralph Percy, turned Virginian explorer iIPn colonial Jamestown. Ralph buys a wife for himself - a girl named Jocelyn Leigh - little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal. Jocelyn hardly loves Ralph - indeed, she seems to abhor him. Carnal, Jocelyn's husband-to-be, eventually comes to Jamestown, unaware that Ralph Percy and Jocelyn Leigh are man and wife. Lord Carnal attempts to kidnap Jocelyn several times and eventually follows Ralph, Jocelyn, and their two companions - Jeremy Sparrow, the Separatist minister, and Diccon, Ralph's servant - as they escape from the King's orders to arrest Ralph and carry Jocelyn back to England. The boat they are in, however, crashes on a desert island, but they are accosted by pirates, who, after a short struggle, agree to take Ralph as their captain, after he pretends to be the pirate "Kirby". The pirates gleefully play on with Ralph's masquerade, until he refuses to allow them to rape and pillage those aboard Spanish ships. The play is up when the pirates see an English ship off the coast of Florida. Ralph refuses to fire upon it, knowing it carries the new Virginian governor, Sir Francis Wyatt, but the pirates open fire, and Jeremy Sparrow, before the English ship can be destroyed, purposefully crashes the ship into a reef. The pirates are all killed, but the Englishmen (and woman) are rescued by the Governor's ship.

Strange Tales from Virginia's Foothills to the Coast: The Richmond Vampire, the Witch of Pungo, the Dismal Swamp Monster & More

Author : Denver Michaels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467152714
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Strange Tales from Virginia's Foothills to the Coast: The Richmond Vampire, the Witch of Pungo, the Dismal Swamp Monster & More written by Denver Michaels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Dominion is filled with the unexplained... With a history stretching back to the 1607 Jamestown settlement, Virginia is rich in mystery. There are ghost towns, fake towns, a vampire in Richmond, a Bunnyman in Clifton and secret government sites all over. Colonists buried gold along the James River and Sir Francis Bacon's plan for a "New Atlantis" lies in a vault in Williamsburg. Fabled pirates Captain Kidd and Blackbeard stashed treasure along the Virginia coast. A ghost light appears at a railroad crossing near West Point and mysterious booms rattle windows from central Virginia to the Eastern Shore. Cryptid creatures stalk the forests from Fairfax County to the Great Dismal Swamp. A devil monkey lurks in Goochland, Bigfoot roams Marine Corps Base Quantico, and a sea serpent swims through the Chesapeake Bay. Join Virginia native Denver Michaels as he explores these legends and many more.

The Powhatan

Author : Danielle Smith-Llera
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515702391
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Powhatan written by Danielle Smith-Llera and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explains Powhatan history and highlights Powhatan life in modern society"--

The Wealth of Jamestown

Author : Barbara N. McLennan
Publisher : Barbara McLennan
ISBN 13 : 9780998087306
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth of Jamestown written by Barbara N. McLennan and published by Barbara McLennan. This book was released on 2017 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wealth of Jamestown follows the development of a new people and the birth of a nation. William Roscoe, a young Virginia planter and sheriff of Yorktown and Gloucester, and Sarah Harrison, seventeen-year-old daughter of one of Virginia's wealthiest planters, are in love and engaged to be married. But Sarah's father, Benjamin Harrison II, forces Sarah to break the engagement and marry James Blair, lobbyist, church bureaucrat and Commissary of the Church of England, with connections to the Board of Trade in England. Sarah retains her dowry and wealth, and while Blair goes to England to lobby for a college of which he'd be President, she continues her relationship with William. Sarah and William buy two sailing ships, and William begins trade with pirates in the new city of Charles Towne. With King William's War with France finished, commerce and trade open up and Virginia planters become very wealthy---William becomes a member of the House of Burgesses. But Blair returns, reclaiming his status and seeking power over all of Virginia.

Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia

Author : Carson O. Hudson Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714424X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft in Colonial Virginia written by Carson O. Hudson Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While the witchcraft mania that swept through Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 was significant, fascination with it has tended to overshadow the historical records of other persecutions throughout early America. Colonial Virginians shared a common belief in the supernatural with their northern neighbors. The 1626 case of Joan Wright, the first woman to be accused of witchcraft in British North America, began Virginia's own witch craze. Utilizing surviving records, local historian Carson Hudson narrates these fascinating stories." --Back cover.

The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present

Author : Clarence R. Geier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541023482
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present written by Clarence R. Geier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.