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Author : Harrison Williams
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1938-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465513755
Author : Williams Harrison
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318018811
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Harrison Williams
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547128939
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Legends of Loudoun" (An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck) by Harrison Williams. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Brenda E. Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198025566
Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend, even as she challenges the conventional wisdom of academic historians. Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in and around Loudoun County, Virginia--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. Loudoun County and its vicinity encapsulated the full sweep of southern life. Here the region's most illustrious families--the Lees, Masons, Carters, Monroes, and Peytons--helped forge southern traditions and attitudes that became characteristic of the entire region while mingling with yeoman farmers of German, Scotch-Irish, and Irish descent, and free black families who lived alongside abolitionist Quakers and thousands of slaves. Stevenson brilliantly recounts their stories as she builds the complex picture of their intertwined lives, revealing how their combined histories guaranteed Loudon's role in important state, regional, and national events and controversies. Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, for example, were hidden at a local plantation during the War of 1812. James Monroe wrote his famous "Doctrine" at his Loudon estate. The area also was the birthplace of celebrated fugitive slave Daniel Dangerfield, the home of John Janney, chairman of the Virginia secession convention, a center for Underground Railroad activities, and the location of John Brown's infamous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry. In exploring the central role of the family, Brenda Stevenson offers a wealth of insight: we look into the lives of upper class women, who bore the oppressive weight of marriage and motherhood as practiced in the South and the equally burdensome roles of their husbands whose honor was tied to their ability to support and lead regardless of their personal preference; the yeoman farm family's struggle for respectability; and the marginal economic existence of free blacks and its undermining influence on their family life. Most important, Stevenson breaks new ground in her depiction of slave family life. Following the lead of historian Herbert Gutman, most scholars have accepted the idea that, like white, slaves embraced the nuclear family, both as a living reality and an ideal. Stevenson destroys this notion, showing that the harsh realities of slavery, even for those who belonged to such attentive masters as George Washington, allowed little possibility of a nuclear family. Far more important were extended kin networks and female headed households. Meticulously researched, insightful, and moving, Life in Black and White offers our most detailed portrait yet of the reality of southern life. It forever changes our understanding of family and race relations during the reign of the peculiar institution in the American South.
Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190289478
When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.
Author : Harold B. Gill,George M. Curtis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461632832
The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell, a young English gentry farmer, was one. Arriving in Virginia during the momentous month of May 1774, Cresswell set out to seek his fortune as a farmer in the newer settlements in northwest Virginia. Soon the fortunes of Revolution overwhelmed him and his plans to begin a new life in America. For the next three years, Cresswell struggled to sustain his mission. Time was against him as his combatants on both sides, with increasingly ominous insistence, sought for and demanded his allegiance. This he never ceded. The very act of keeping a journal became dangerous. His written account of his attempt to sustain his liberty has long been a significant window into the turbulence of the Revolution. In offering this singular view of liberty during the Revolution, Nicholas Cresswell stood and still stands as a rebuke to subsequent historians of the Revolution, patriot leaning or loyalist leaning, who had difficulty in accommodating this journal into their generalized views of causation and justification. As a consequence, much of Cresswell's real perspectives were either lost or misinformed. In 1928, an edition of Cresswell's journal was published, but it was expurgated and not annotated. This edition of the Cresswell journal is the first unexpurgated and annotated edition ever published. As such, it offers new light for the better illumination of the turbulent world of revolutionary politics and personalities.
Author : Larry Roeder,Barry Harrelson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647123642
This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American education The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected every aspect of life for Black Americans. Dirt Don't Burn is the riveting narrative of an extraordinary community that overcame the cultural and legal hurdles of systematic racism. Dirt Don’t Burn describes how Loudoun County, Virginia, which once denied educational opportunity to Black Americans, gradually increased the equality of education for all children in the area. The book includes powerful stories of the largely unknown individuals and organizations that brought change to enduring habits of exclusion and prejudice toward African Americans. Dirt Don't Burn sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American history. It provides new historical details and insights into African American experiences based on original research through thousands of previously lost records, archival NAACP files, and records of educational philanthropies. This book will appeal to readers interested in American history, African American history, and regional history, as well as educational policy and social justice.
Author : Jeffry D. Wert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671747459
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556032758138
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556035060912
Author : Michael Horigan
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811742702
Clearly, something went wrong in Elmira. Drawing on ten years of research, this book traces the story of what happened.
Author : Winfred E. A. Bernhard,Felice A. Bonadio,Paul L. Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008639117
This three-volume series of comprehensive anthologies probes the growth and evolution of American political parties through the writing of leading contemporary historians and scholars.
Author : Doris Ross Brock Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89062438726
Benjamin Carroll Wilks (1827-1919) moved from Lauderdale County, Alabama to Hill County, Texas, and married Martha Harriet Young in 1856. He was a direct descendant of Benjamin Wilks (1738-1795), who lived in New Kent County and Charlotte County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry in England.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Virginia
ISBN : UOM:39015015169611
Author : Taylor M. Chamberlin,John M. Souders
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786489343
The northern part of Loudoun County was a Unionist enclave in Confederate Virginia that remained a contested battleground for armies and factions of all stripes throughout the Civil War. Lying between the Blue Ridge Mountains, Harpers Ferry, and Washington, D.C., the Loudoun Valley provided a natural corridor for commanders on both sides, while its mountainous fringes were home to partisans, guerillas, deserters and smugglers. This detailed history examines the conflicting loyalties in the farming communities, the peaceful Quakers caught in the middle, and the political underpinnings of Unionist Virginia.