Danville Revisited

Author : Clara G. Fountain,Gary Grant
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467120012

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Danville Revisited by Clara G. Fountain,Gary Grant Pdf

Situated along the Dan River, Danville is known historically as a major tobacco market in the 19th century. In 1865, Danville was chosen as the last capital of the Confederacy. Prosperity returned after the war with water-powered textile mills, which ushered in a 125-year legacy of Dan River Mills. Recently discovered images take the reader back in time to see Danville as it once was--a thriving boomtown on a major railroad line. Danville features graceful houses of worship along Millionaires Row and other architecturally significant landmarks. For more than a century, local photographers captured the everyday life of Danville through images of early businesses, schools, public transportation, and local disasters such as the Wreck of the Old 97 and the 1911 cyclone. Danville Revisited showcases the rich industrial and manufacturing history of this southern Virginia city.

Author : John Stewart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476616407

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Jefferson Davisäó»s Flight from Richmond by John Stewart Pdf

In the space of a few hours on the night of April 2, 1865, Richmond, the Confederate capital, was evacuated and burned, the government fled, slavery was finished in North America, Union forces entered the city and the outcome of the Civil War was effectively sealed. No official documents tell the story because the Confederate government was on the run. First there were newspaper accounts—mostly confused—then history books based on those accounts. But much of what we know about the fall of Richmond comes from “eyewitnesses” like Confederate Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory, whose tale became history. A great deal of what has been presented over the years by historians has been plagiarized, invented or misconstrued, and nearly all we have learned of Jefferson Davis’s flight from Richmond to Danville is wrong. This book closely examines all relevant source material—much of it newly discovered by the author—as well as the writers, diarists and eyewitnesses themselves, and constructs a minutely detailed new account that comes closer to what Abraham Lincoln had in mind when he said, “History is not history unless it is the truth.”

Author : James V. Rinnovatore & Allan Eaglesham
Publisher : Author House
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781491864968

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THE JFK ASSASSINATION REVISITED by James V. Rinnovatore & Allan Eaglesham Pdf

James Rinnovatore and Allan Eaglesham provide proof that President Kennedy's body was in the Bethesda morgue well before the motorcade from Andrews Air Force Base arrived at the entrance to Bethesda Naval Hospital carrying the bronze casket in which the body had been placed at Parkland Hospital, Dallas. The casket was empty at this time, as it had been when it was placed in a gray navy ambulance for transportation from Andrews to Bethesda. The body had been removed from the bronze casket while Lyndon Johnson was being sworn in as president before Air Force One left Love Field. The purpose of the early arrival of the body at the Bethesda morgue was to alter the wounds, which had been found to be frontal by the doctors at Parkland. The wounds had to be reversed in order to implicate a lone assassin - Lee Harvey Oswald - shooting from the Texas School Book Depository. New information is provided regarding pre-autopsy photographs and exclusion of FBI agents from the autopsy room to prevent their discovery of the body there. Also provided are analyses of the reports of the Warren Commission, the HSCA, and the ARRB, of who planned the assassination, and the case for two Oswalds. *www.manuscriptservice.com/DarkCorners/

Author : Dwight Austin Collier,Martha Dingler Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Southern States
ISBN : WISC:89066037201

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The Chinaberry Tree Revisited by Dwight Austin Collier,Martha Dingler Moore Pdf

John Jeremiah Collier was born about 1760 probably in Scotland. He married Sarah Ann Wood about 1861. They lived in North Carolina and had seven children. Information on many of their descendants is included in the material provided in this volume. Family members now live in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere.

Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820358048

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SNCC's Stories by Sharon Monteith Pdf

Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people. For Howard Zinn in 1964, SNCC members were “new abolitionists,” but SNCC pursued radical initiatives and Black Power politics in addition to reform. It was committed to grassroots organizing in towns and rural communities, facilitating voter registration and direct action through “projects” embedded in Freedom Houses, especially in the South: the setting for most of SNCC’s stories. Over time, it changed from a tight cadre into a disparate group of many constellations but stood out among civil rights organizations for its participatory democracy and emphasis on local people deciding the terms of their battle for social change. Organizers debated their role and grappled with SNCC’s responsibility to communities, to the “walking wounded” damaged by racial terrorism, and to individuals who died pursuing racial justice. SNCC’s Stories examines the organization’s print and publishing culture, uncovering how fundamental self- and group narration is for the undersung heroes of social movements. The organizer may be SNCC’s dramatis persona, but its writers have been overlooked. In the 1960s it was assumed established literary figures would write about civil rights, and until now, critical attention has centered on the Black Arts Movement, neglecting what SNCC’s writers contributed. Sharon Monteith gathers hard-to-find literature where the freedom movement in the civil rights South is analyzed as subjective history and explored imaginatively. SNCC’s print culture consists of field reports, pamphlets, newsletters, fiction, essays, poetry, and plays, which serve as intimate and illuminative sources for understanding political action. SNCC's literary history contributes to the organization's legacy.

Author : William Birney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Slavery
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011801094

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James G. Birney and His Times by William Birney Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Public health
ISBN : UOM:39015008110242

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Public Health Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1450 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Public health
ISBN : CHI:78881097

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Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : R. H. Howard,Henry E. Crocker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : New England
ISBN : HARVARD:HNE72Z

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A History of New England by R. H. Howard,Henry E. Crocker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Indiana
ISBN : UCAL:B3614964

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Indiana Magazine of History by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Hoffmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1915 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781594778902

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Medical Herbalism by David Hoffmann Pdf

A foundational textbook on the scientific principles of therapeutic herbalism and their application in medicine • A complete handbook for the medical practitioner • Includes the most up-to-date information on preparations, dosage, and contraindications • By the author of The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal Medical Herbalism contains comprehensive information concerning the identification and use of medicinal plants by chemical structure and physiological effect, the art and science of making herbal medicine, the limitations and potential of viewing herbs chemically, and the challenge to current research paradigms posed by complex plant medicines. It also includes information on toxicology and contraindications, the issues involved in determining dosage and formulation types for an individual, guides to the different measurement systems and conversion tables, and the pros and cons of both industrial and traditional techniques. With additional sections devoted to the principles of green medicine, the history of Western Herbalism, the variety of other medical modalities using medicinal plants, an extensive resource directory, and a discussion of treatments organized by body system, Medical Herbalism is the comprehensive textbook all students and practitioners of clinical herbalism need to develop their healing practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Cotton
ISBN : CHI:102250092

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Cotton Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frances Elizabeth Willard,Minerva Brace Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89098855505

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A Great Mother by Frances Elizabeth Willard,Minerva Brace Norton Pdf

Author : Fred Metcalfe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595156634

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Revisiting the Twentieth Century by Fred Metcalfe Pdf

Revisiting the Twentieth Century, as the title suggests, is a collection of the author's experiences from his childhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, to those of him and his family before their move to New Jersey from North Carolina in 1955. The story covers amusing anecdotes he experienced in his student years, in a variety of summer laboring jobs, his early days with 3M in St. Paul, his bachelor life in New York, the courtship of his wife, their life in the High Point, NC and his job as salesman and sales manager. These anecdotes illustrate what life was like during this period which was marked by two shooting world wars, a depression and the threat of nuclear destruction. Against this background of international tumult, a great transformation in lifestyle occurred in the United States. At the beginning of the story, no one in his neighborhood has a car or a radio. Even the telephone and the record player were of recent origin. Families or churches took care of relatives and the poor went to the poorhouse . The work week was sixty hours and payment for over-time was unheard of. Unions were fighting to improve the working man's lot in life, but were in their infancy. Neighborhood interdependency disappeared as the automobile shrunk distances and people achieved greater mobility. The change in lifestyle that occurred in this brief period seem somewhat unique in our history.

Author : George E. Saurman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532018343

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Revisiting the Memories of Yesterday by George E. Saurman Pdf

George E. Saurman looks back at a life filled with adventure, beginning with his birth in Houston in 1926 and through his twilight years at a Pennsylvania retirement community. Within a year of being born, his family moved to Baltimore before finding a permanent home in Pennsylvania, but it wasnt long before they were immersed in the Great Depression. With Saurmans father out of work, his mother supported the family as a hairdresser. Saurman recalls being mentored by his grandfather, who taught the importance of living life according to the Ten Commandments and the Book of Proverbs. He also shares what it was like growing up as a boy in the 1930s and early 1940s. With the arrival of World War II, he joined the Army and eventually went to basic infantry training. He served in the infantry for the duration of the war. Hed have the great fortune to meet his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Ewen, at Ursinus College. They enjoyed a sixty-two year marriage and raised a wonderful family, and she supported him throughout his career as a businessman, borough councilman, as mayor of Ambler, and during his fourteen years as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.