Children Of The Streets Of Richmond 1865 1920

Author : Harry M. Ward
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476619965

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Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920 by Harry M. Ward Pdf

Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. From 1905 to 1915 there was an official red light district. The police had their hands full with drunks and riffraff, and a variety of street urchins and waifs--most of whom were very poor--found themselves on the wrong side of the law. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond--some barely out of infancy--were held accountable in the Police Court. A juvenile court system was not established until 1916. Presiding over the Police Court for 32 years was Justice John Jeter Crutchfield who, though unlearned in the law, functioned like a biblical Solomon but with great showmanship. The Police Court attracted many tourists and some of Virginia's literary figures cut their teeth writing newspaper coverage of the proceedings, vying with each other for the most hilarious slant. What emerges from the public record is an amusing and touching picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South.

Author : Harry M. Ward
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786498536

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Children of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920 by Harry M. Ward Pdf

Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. From 1905 to 1915 there was an official red light district. The police had their hands full with drunks and riffraff, and a variety of street urchins and waifs--most of whom were very poor--found themselves on the wrong side of the law. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond--some barely out of infancy--were held accountable in the Police Court. A juvenile court system was not established until 1916. Presiding over the Police Court for 32 years was Justice John Jeter Crutchfield who, though unlearned in the law, functioned like a biblical Solomon but with great showmanship. The Police Court attracted many tourists and some of Virginia's literary figures cut their teeth writing newspaper coverage of the proceedings, vying with each other for the most hilarious slant. What emerges from the public record is an amusing and touching picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South.

Author : Harry M. Ward
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476626178

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Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870–1920 by Harry M. Ward Pdf

Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to a lively underworld of tricksters, swindlers, confidence men and thieves. The former Confederate capital’s under-staffed police force and dense population—large numbers of immigrants and the very poor—accommodated the enterprising criminal. Newspaper reports of the day offer a glimpse of a wide variety of crimes and misdemeanors, often with a bit of humor or pathos. Based on reports from the proceedings of the Police Court, this book provides a portrait of Richmond—then the most congested city in the U.S.—during the “Golden Age of the Con,” when gamblers, hustlers and frauds plied their trades across the country.

Author : Kristin T. Thrower Stowe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439672105

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A History Lover's Guide to Richmond by Kristin T. Thrower Stowe Pdf

Best known as the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond's history encompasses much more than the Civil War. Visit the state capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson, and tour Shockoe Bottom, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. Follow the route that enslaved people took from the ships to the auction block on the Richmond Slave Trail. Go back to Gilded Age Richmond at the Jefferson Hotel and learn the history of the statues that once lined the famed Monument Avenue. See lesser-known sites like the Maggie Walker Home and the Black History Museum in the historically African American Jackson Ward neighborhood. Local author Kristin Thrower Stowe guides a series of expeditions through the River City's past.

Author : Amy Stewart
Publisher : Kopp Sisters Novel
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328736529

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Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart Pdf

In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline--whether they're ready or not--as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I. It's the spring of 1917 and change is in the air. American women have done something remarkable: they've banded together to create military-style training camps for women who want to serve. These so-called National Service Schools prove irresistible to the Kopp sisters, who leave their farm in New Jersey to join up. When an accident befalls the matron, Constance reluctantly agrees to oversee the camp--much to the alarm of the Kopps' tent-mate, the real-life Beulah Binford, who is seeking refuge from her own scandalous past under the cover of a false identity. Will she be denied a second chance? And after notoriety, can a woman's life ever be her own again? InKopp Sisters on the March, the women of Camp Chevy Chase face down the skepticism of the War Department, the double standards of a scornful public, and the very real perils of war. Once again, Amy Stewart has brilliantly brought a little-known moment in history to light with her fearless and funny Kopp sisters novels.

Author : David T. Courtwright
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674239258

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The Age of Addiction by David T. Courtwright Pdf

“A fascinating history of corporate America’s efforts to shape our habits and desires.” —Sean Illing, Vox “[A] compulsively readable book about bad habits becoming big business...In crisp and playful prose and with plenty of needed humor, Courtwright has written a fascinating history of what we like and why we like it, from the first taste of beer in the ancient Middle East to opioids in West Virginia.” —American Conservative “A sweeping, ambitious account of the evolution of addiction...This bold, thought-provoking synthesis will appeal to fans of ‘big history’ in the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel.” —Publishers Weekly “A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround us daily...This intelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining book will become the standard work on the subject.” —Rod Phillips, author of Alcohol: A History We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are deliberately hooking our kids. But what can we do to resist temptations that insidiously rewire our brains? A renowned expert on addiction, David Courtwright reveals how global enterprises have both created and catered to our addictions. The Age of Addiction chronicles the triumph of what he calls “limbic capitalism,” the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation, and long-term memory.

Author : Andrea Mehrländer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110236897

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The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870 by Andrea Mehrländer Pdf

This work is the first monograph which closely examines the role of the German minority in the American South during the Civil War. In a comparative analysis of German civic leaders, businessmen, militia officers and blockade runners in Charleston, New Orleans and Richmond, it reveals a German immigrant population which not only largely supported slavery, but was also heavily involved in fighting the war. A detailed appendix includes an extensive survey of primary and secondary sources, including tables listing the members of the all-German units in Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana, with names, place of origin, rank, occupation, income, and number of slaves owned. This book is a highly useful reference work for historians, military scholars and genealogists conducting research on Germans in the American Civil War and the American South.

Author : Marie Tyler-McGraw
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0807844764

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At the Falls by Marie Tyler-McGraw Pdf

A study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to the inauguration of Douglas Wilder, America's first elected African-American governor

Author : Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807866085

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We Mean to Be Counted by Elizabeth R. Varon Pdf

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.

Author : Providence (R.I.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Municipal government
ISBN : HARVARD:LI2T7Q

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City Document by Providence (R.I.) Pdf

Includes the City Manual along with the annual reports of the City's various departments and offices.

Author : John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 2390 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476624365

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Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg by John W. Busey,Travis W. Busey Pdf

 This reference book provides information on 24,000 Confederate soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing at the Battle of Gettysburg. Casualties are listed by state and unit, in many cases with specifics regarding wounds, circumstances of casualty, military service, genealogy and physical descriptions. Detailed casualty statistics are given in tables for each company, battalion and regiment, along with brief organizational information for many units. Appendices cover Confederate and Union hospitals that treated Southern wounded and Federal prisons where captured Confederates were interned after the battle. Original burial locations are provided for many Confederate dead, along with a record of disinterments in 1871 and burial locations in three of the larger cemeteries where remains were reinterred. A complete name index is included.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Virginia
ISBN : UVA:X002273631

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Virginia Country by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121718311

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Marine insurance
ISBN : UOM:39015086589952

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Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : HARVARD:HX2X27

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Prominent Families of New York by Lyman Horace Weeks Pdf