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Author : Ken Sullivan
Publisher : West Virginia Humanities
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The West Virginia Encyclopedia written by Ken Sullivan and published by West Virginia Humanities. This book was released on 2006 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Black
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526744457
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Yank and Rebel Rangers written by Robert W. Black and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Civil War history reveals the tactics and covert operations of both Union and Confederate rangers, guerilla forces, and volunteer units. The major battles of the American Civil War are well recorded. But while much has been written about the action at Shiloh and Gettysburg, far less is known about the cover operations and irregular warfare that were equally consequential. Both the Union and Confederate armies employed small forces of highly trained soldiers for special operations behind enemy lines. In Yank and Rebel Rangers, historian Robert W. Black tells this untold story of the war between the states. Skilled in infiltration, often crossing enemy lines in disguise, these warriors went deep into enemy territory, captured important personnel, disrupted lines of communication, and sowed confusion and fear. Often wearing the uniform of the enemy, they faced execution as spies if captured. Despite these risks, and in part because of them, these warriors fought and died as American rangers.
Author : Luigi Monge
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496841794
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Wasn’t That a Mighty Day written by Luigi Monge and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural importance. Featuring newly transcribed lyrics, the book offers sustained attention to how both Black and white communities responded to many of the tragic events that occurred before the mid-1950s. Through detailed textual analysis, Luigi Monge explores songs on natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes); accidental disasters (sinkings, fires, train wrecks, explosions, and air disasters); and infestations, epidemics, and diseases (the boll weevil, the jake leg, and influenza). Analyzed songs cover some of the most well-known disasters of the time period from the sinking of the Titanic and the 1930 drought to the Hindenburg accident, and more. Thirty previously unreleased African American disaster songs appear in this volume for the first time, revealing their pertinence to the relevant disasters. By comparing the song lyrics to critical moments in history, Monge is able to explore how deeply and directly these catastrophes affected Black communities; how African Americans in general, and blues and gospel singers in particular, faced and reacted to disaster; whether these collective tragedies prompted different reactions among white people and, if so, why; and more broadly, how the role of memory in recounting and commenting on historical and cultural facts shaped African American society from 1879 to 1955.
Author : Hal E. Pugh
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647887
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Naomi "Omie" Wise written by Hal E. Pugh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naomi "Omie" Wise was drowned by her lover in the waters of North Carolina's Deep River in 1807, and her murder has been remembered in ballad and story for well over two centuries. Mistakes, romanticization and misremembering have been injected into Naomi's biography over time, blurring the line between reality and fiction. The authors of this book, whose family has lived in the Deep River area since the 18th century, are descendants of many of the people who knew Naomi Wise or were involved in her murder investigation. This is the story of a young woman betrayed and how her death gave way to the folk traditions by which she is remembered today. The book sheds light on the plight of impoverished women in early America and details the fascinating inner workings of the Piedmont North Carolina Quaker community that cared for Naomi in her final years and kept her memory alive.
Author : Michael E. Workman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Northern West Virginia Coal Fields written by Michael E. Workman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric C. Nagle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Ford Family Genealogy written by Eric C. Nagle and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of William Ford who was born ca. 1730 in England or Wales. He married ca. 1750 and immigrated to America sometime prior to the year 1770. William and his family first lived in Charles Co., Maryland and later settled in Fauquier Co., Virginia by the year 1787. William was the father of eight sons and two daughters. Descendants lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa, California and elsewhere.
Author : Allan W. Eckert
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307790460
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book That Dark and Bloody River written by Allan W. Eckert and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice and from despair—pioneers all, in the great and inexorable westward expansion defined at its heart by the majestic flow of the Ohio River. This is their story, a chronicle of monumental dimension, of resounding drama and impact set during a pivotal era in our history: the birth and growth of a nation. Drawing on a wealth of research, both scholarly and anecdotal—including letters, diaries, and journals of the era—Allan W. Eckert has delivered a landmark of historical authenticity, unprecedented in scope and detail.
Author : Phillip G. Goff
Publisher : Phillip G Goff
ISBN 13 : 1930353863
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Four Goff Brothers of Western Virginia written by Phillip G. Goff and published by Phillip G Goff. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers James Goff, John Turton Goff (d. 1803), Thomas Goff (1747-1824) and Salathiel Goff (d. 1791), were probably born in England or Wales. They emigrated and settled in Virginia and Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book AAFA Action written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Kromer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082034236X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Waiting for Nothing and Other Writings written by Tom Kromer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Waiting for Nothing" and Other Writings, the works of the depression-era writer Tom Kromer are collected for the first time into a volume that depicts with searing realism life on the bum in the 1930s and, with greater detachment, the powerless frustration of working-class people often too locked in to know their predicament.Waiting for Nothing, Kromer's only completed novel, is largely autobiographical and was written at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in California. It tells the story of one man drifting through America, east coast to west, main stem to side street, endlessly searching for "three hots and a flop"--food and a place to sleep. Kromer scans, in first-person voice, the scattered events, the stultifying sameness, of "life on the vag"--the encounters with cops, the window panes that separate hunger and a "feed," the bartering with prostitutes and homosexuals. In "Michael Kohler," Kromer's unfinished novel, the harsh existence of coal miners in Pennsylvania is told in a committed, political voice that reveals Kromer's developing affinity with leftist writers including Lincoln Steffens and Theodore Dreiser. An exploration of Kromer's proletarian roots, "Michael Kohler" was to be a political novel, a story of labor unions and the injustices of big management. Kromer's other work ranges from his college days, when he wrote a sarcastic expose of the bums in his hometown titled "Pity the Poor Panhandler: $2 an Hour Is All He Gets," to the sensitive pieces of his later life--short stories, articles, and book reviews written more out of an aching understanding of suffering than from the slick formulas of politics. Waiting for Nothing remains, however, Kromer's most powerful achievement, a work Steffens called "realism to the nth degree." Collected here as the major part of Kromer's oeuvre, Waiting for Nothing traces the author's personal struggle to preserve human virtues and emotions in the face of a brutal and dehumanizing society.
Author : E. Lee North
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The 55 West Virginias written by E. Lee North and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Cheatham
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865548312
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (483 download)
Download or read book "No Man Walks Alone" written by Mike Cheatham and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas G. Pownall was a mountaineer from a West Virginia hamlet of 700 souls. He rose to become CEO of Martin Marietta Corp. (now Lockheed-Martin Corp.) and was a dominant figure in the world of aerospace technology in the second half of the twentieth century. During this span American aviation progressed from a twenty-foot fuselage with a biplane effect to the most modern of faster-than- sound space vehicles, bringing with it a race to the moon. In all this, Thomas Pownall was at the center.In the view of many, Pownall was the outstanding leader in the aerospace industry. This book includes a diagram featuring Pownall's epoch-making breakthroughs. More than sixty photographs demonstrate the range of his influence from photographing the surface of Mars, vacationing with astronaut Neil Armstrong and the pair's wives, to hanging around Bob Hope and President Ronald Reagan. This is the story of the man from the mountains of West Virginia who took the world of aerospace and aviation by storm.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to North American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Bruce Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813120645
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)
Download or read book An Appalachian New Deal written by Jerry Bruce Thomas and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Depression had already begun in West Virginia before the stock market crash of November 1929 and lasted until the coming of war in 1941. In tracing the responses of the people and government of West Virginia during the Depression, historian Jerry Thomas not only deals with politics and institutions but also tells about ordinary people during the worst conditions in the state's history. 18 photos.
Author : Chester E. Bartram (Sr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Solomon and Nancy Ellen (Ball) Thompson Family of Wayne County, West Virginia written by Chester E. Bartram (Sr.) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Thompson (d. ca. 1760) is believed to be of Scotch-Irish origin and first settled in America in Pennsylvania. He and his wife Mary had six children and later moved to Halifax County, North Carolina. There sons migrated to Virginia. Solomon Thompson (1842-1903) was born in Virginia and married Nancy Ellen Ball. She descends from John Ball (b. ca. 1670- d. 1722) of Virginia. Solomon and Nancy had eight children, and raised them in Wayne County, West Virginia. Descendants now live throughout the United States.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
