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Author : Agnes Rothery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : UOM:39015027057697
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : US History Publishers
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781603540452
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595342447
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Virgina documents the vital role the Old Dominion played in the history of the first 150 years of the United States and before. It is packed with historical information, particularly from the Colonial and Revolutionary years, and supplemented with photos of historic buildings and sites. Also worth note are the artistic photographs of the state’s ordinary people and its natural beauty, including the Shenandoah and Chesapeake Bay regions.
Author : Barbara Burlison Mooney
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813926734
Introduction : "An art which shews so much" -- Defining the prodigy house : architectural aesthetics and the colonial dialect -- "Blind stupid fortune" : profiling the architectural patron -- "Reason reascends her throne" : the impact of dowry -- "Each rascal will be a director" : architectural patrons and the building process -- Learning to become "good mechanics in building" -- Epistemologies of female space : early Tidewater mansions -- Political power and the limits of genteel architecture
Author : William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674028988
Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. Indeed, today's controversies over flying the Confederate flag, renaming schools and streets, and commemorating the Civil War and the civil rights movement are only the latest examples of this ongoing divisive contest over issues of regional identity and heritage. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups. For more than a century after the Civil War, elite white Southerners systematically refined a version of the past that sanctioned their racial privilege and power. In the process, they filled public spaces with museums and monuments that made their version of the past sacrosanct. Yet, even as segregation and racial discrimination worsened, blacks contested the white version of Southern history and demanded inclusion. Streets became sites for elaborate commemorations of emancipation and schools became centers for the study of black history. This counter-memory surged forth, and became a potent inspiration for the civil rights movement and the black struggle to share a common Southern past rather than a divided one. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's searing exploration of how those who have the political power to represent the past simultaneously shape the present and determine the future is a valuable lesson as we confront our national past to meet the challenge of current realities.
Author : Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849674953
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. Braddock's Road. The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. Boone's Wilderness Road. Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin. Waterways of Westward Expansion. The Cumberland Road. Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes). The Great American Canals (two volumes). The Future of Road-Making in America. The little portage pathways which connected the heads of our rivers and lakes or offered the voyageur a thoroughfare around the cataracts and rapids of our rivers were, as the subtitle of this volume suggests, the " Keys of the Continent " two centuries or so ago. The forts, chapels, trading stations, treaty houses, council fires, boundary stones, camp grounds, and villages located at these strategic points all prove this. The study of these routes brings one at once face to face with old-time problems from a point of view almost never otherwise gained. The newness and value of reviewing historic movements from the standpoint of highways is strikingly emphasized in the case of portage paths. While studying them, one seems to rise on heights of ground like those these pathways spanned — and from that altitude, gazing backward, to get a better perspective of the military and social movements which made these little roads historic.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1794 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011809188
Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2094 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : American drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357474
Author : G. Terry Sharrer
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1557532842
A Kind Of Fate: Agricultural Change In Virginia, 1861-1920 surveys farming in Virginia through the experiences of Jacob Manning and his son James. We read about their individual struggles, the impact of the Civil War, contrasts between farming and country life, Jacob having to farm through the harsh times of the Civil War, his son James farming experiences during a post-war time of rising prosperity. Author Terry Sharrer (curator of health sciences at the Smithsonian Institutions, Washington, D.C.) focuses on the changes in agriculture and its shift from crop-focused to livestock-dominated farming.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Libraries
ISBN : WISC:89096041892
Author : Emmie Ferguson Farrar,Harry Bagby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UVA:X004346703
Old Virginia Houses series features descriptions and black-and-white photographs of historic buildings. It focuses more on the homes built in the 1600's, 1700's, and 1800's; churches, government buildings, and places of business are also included.
Author : Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UOM:35112102795871
Author : John Alexander Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393243833
John Alexander Williams's West Virginia: A History is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state. In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events—the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest and Buffalo Creek disasters, and more. Williams uses these pivotal events as introductions to the larger issues of statehood, Civil War, unionism, and industrialization. Along the way, Williams conveys a true feel for the lives of common West Virginians, the personalities of the state's memorable characters, and the powerful influence of the land itself on its own history.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3458506
Author : Virginia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:78120097