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Book An Introduction to Williamsburg

Download or read book An Introduction to Williamsburg written by Valerie Tripp and published by Pleasantry Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in cooperation with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation."

Book An Introduction to Williamsburg  Teacher s guide

Download or read book An Introduction to Williamsburg Teacher s guide written by Valerie Tripp and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Williamsburg s Joseph Prentis

Download or read book Williamsburg s Joseph Prentis written by Joseph Prentis and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal garden book and garden calendar of Joseph Prentis, an attorney in Williamsburg, Virginia. Prentis's garden directions and advice provide us with an interesting and useful garden record. These manuscripts from eighteenth-century tidewater Virginia are a welcome addition to kitchen garden literature.

Book 1776

    Book Details:
  • Author : K. M. Kostyal
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1426305176
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book 1776 written by K. M. Kostyal and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find yourself transported to Williamsburg in the days of the Revolution See the city at war through the eyes of everyday citizens for an exciting new perspective on the historic year of 1776. The latest in the popular "New Look" line of history titles, K.M. Kostyal's 1776: A New Look at Revolutionary Williamsburg combines new scholarship with rare, powerful photographs to take readers behind the scenes at Colonial Williamsburg. Stunning re-enactment photographs of America's "Revolutionary City" brings history vividly to life: The narrative goes beyond the story of the founding fathers to give a close-up look at how the war for independence played out for ordinary citizens such as women, blacksmiths, and enslaved people. Colonial Williamsburg scholars shed fresh light on this vital era in our history with the most recent research and analysis. The book's lively design combines with the compelling photography of modern-day Williamsburg's street theater and historic interpretation to transport readers back to the heyday of colonial times. Scenes from around the city include a milliner forced to pack up shop, children at a play in a courtyard next to soldiers on patrol, and slaves wrenched from family and friends as they leave town with their Loyalist masters. This exciting, innovative book takes a new look at a familiar topic through the lives of the men and women who would claim America for their own and declare themselves its first citizens. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

Book Creating Colonial Williamsburg

Download or read book Creating Colonial Williamsburg written by Anders Greenspan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete understanding of the town's true history. The meaning and purpose of Colonial Williamsburg has changed over time, along with America's changing social and political landscapes, making the study of this historic site a unique and meaningful entry point to understanding the shifting modern American character. In recent years, financial struggles and declining attendance forced a new interpretation of the town, extending the presentation into the period of the American Revolution, while adding new interpretive approaches such as street theater and a greater emphasis on technology. Over its eighty-year history, says Greenspan, Colonial Williamsburg has grown and matured, while still retaining its emphasis on the importance of eighteenth-century values and their application in the modern world.

Book A Colonial Williamsburg ABC

Download or read book A Colonial Williamsburg ABC written by Amy Watson and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This picture book uses the alphabet to introduce children to eighteenth-century Williamsburg. From A to Z, each of the illustrations is based on an activity or an object associated with colonial life that can be seen in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area today.

Book The Public Buildings of Williamsburg  Colonial Capital of Virginia

Download or read book The Public Buildings of Williamsburg Colonial Capital of Virginia written by Marcus Whiffen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Horse s Tale

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  • Author : Susan Lubner
  • Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
  • Release : 2008-04-01
  • ISBN : 9780810994904
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Horse s Tale written by Susan Lubner and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Williamsburg, Virginia, in colonial days, Lancer the horse runs loose and behaves oddly while his owner and owner's friends try everything they can think of to help him feel better, until Margaret the Milliner realizes that Lancer needs a friend, too.

Book Guide Book to Williamsburg  Old and New   With Illustrations

Download or read book Guide Book to Williamsburg Old and New With Illustrations written by Virginia WILLIAMSBURG and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Williamsburg

Download or read book Colonial Williamsburg written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leaving Brooklyn

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  • Author : Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  • Publisher : Hawthorne Books
  • Release : 2011-10-05
  • ISBN : 0983850445
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Leaving Brooklyn written by Lynne Sharon Schwartz and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a singular girl.

Book Williamsburg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor Lederer
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780738537924
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Williamsburg written by Victor Lederer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no New York neighborhood that boasts a richer history or more exciting present than Williamsburg. At first a quiet waterside community, Williamsburg briefly became a wealthy suburb of Manhattan in the middle of the nineteenth century. Heavy industrialization and a tidal wave of immigrants later turned Williamsburg into New York's poorest, most crowded quarter. With images drawn chiefly from the rich photographic collection of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Williamsburg illustrates the neighborhood's transformation from one of New York's most impoverished and least fashionable neighborhoods to a modern-day example of the city's capacity for self-renewal.

Book Dawn s Early Light

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  • Author : Elswyth Thane
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2017-05-01
  • ISBN : 1613738153
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book Dawn s Early Light written by Elswyth Thane and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, Colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the Aristrocratic St. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington's aide; Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia beauty spoiled by a season in London; Julian Day, a young schoolmaster who arrives from England on the eve of the war and initially thinks of himself as a Tory; and Tibby Mawes, one of his less fortunate pupils, saddled with an alcoholic father and an indigent mother. But we also see Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Greene, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion, and the rest of that brilliant galaxy playing their roles not as historical figures but as men. We see de Kalb's gallant death under a cavalry charge at Camden. We penetrate to the swamp-encircled camp which was Marion's stronghold on the Peedee. We watch the cat-and-mouse game between Cornwallis and Lafayette, which ended in Cornwallis's unlucky stand at Yorktown. Dawn's Early Light is the human story behind our first war for liberty, and of the men and women loving and laughing through it to the dawn of a better world.

Book A Window on Williamsburg

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  • Author : John J. Walklet (Jr)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Window on Williamsburg written by John J. Walklet (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Williamsburg  Va

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  • Author : Williamsburg (Va.). Chamber of Commerce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Historic Williamsburg Va written by Williamsburg (Va.). Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Restoring Williamsburg

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  • Author : George Humphrey Yetter
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300248350
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Restoring Williamsburg written by George Humphrey Yetter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date and comprehensive look at the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg illuminates the important role it has played in our understanding of 18th-century America.

Book A Guide Book for Williamsburg  Virginia

Download or read book A Guide Book for Williamsburg Virginia written by Colonial Williamsburg, inc and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: