Download or read book Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches written by Ruth Hairston Early and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virginia Chronicles written by Kayt Miller and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College senior Virginia Madison has a problem. She's due to graduate but she refuses to go out into the 'real world' with the stigma as a twenty-one-year-old v-i-r-g-i-n. To remedy the situation, she decides to turn her Senior Research Project into the search for the perfect candidate to, well, you know... Baker Stark is a player on and off the ice. As an Iowa State hockey player, he has his pick of the ladies. But when he's surprised by the connection he feels after one kiss with the nerdy girl who's researching s-e-x, he's thrown into a tailspin. Because Virginia Madison drives him crazy. In all the right ways. This is a stand-alone story with an HEA. Due to coarse language and sexual situations, it's intended for readers 18+.
Download or read book Cradle of America written by Peter Wallenstein and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation’s early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the “cradle of America.” Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. The second edition is updated with new material throughout, including a new chapter on Virginia and world affairs from the Korean War through 9/11 and beyond, and, an expanded bibliography. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other’s visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia’s leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state’s dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation’s evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Carter G. Woodson, Patsy Cline, and L. Douglas Wilder. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia’s history.
Download or read book The Lees of Virginia Seven Generations of an American Family written by Paul C. Nagel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990-08-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, from the family founder Richard to General Robert E. Lee, covering over two hundred years of American history. We meet Thomas Lee, who dreamed of America as a continental empire. His daughter was Hannah Lee Corbin, a non-conformist in lifestyle and religion, while his son, Richard Henry Lee, was a tempestuous figure who wore black silk over a disfigured hand when he made the motion in Congress for Independence. Another of Thomas' sons, Arthur Lee, created a political storm by his accusations against Benjamin Franklin. Arthur's cousin was Light-Horse Harry Lee, a controversial cavalry officer in the Revolutionary War, whose wild real estate speculation led to imprisonment for debt and finally self-exile in the Caribbean. One of Harry's sons, Henry Lee, further disgraced the family by seducing his sister-in-law and frittering away Stratford, the Lees' ancestral home. Another son, however, became the family's redeeming figure--Robert E. Lee, a brilliant tactician who is still revered for his lofty character and military success. In these and numerous other portraits, Nagel discloses how, from 1640 to 1870, a family spirit united the Lees, making them a force in Virginian and American affairs. Paul Nagel is a leading chronicler of families prominent in our history. His Descent from Glory, a masterful narrative account of four generations of Adamses, was hailed by The New Yorker as "intelligent, tactful, and spiritually generous," and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian W.A. Swanberg, in the Chicago Sun-Times, called it "a magnificent embarrassment of biographical riches." Now, in The Lees of Virginia, Nagel brings his skills to bear on another major American family, taking readers inside the great estates of the Old Dominion and the turbulent lives of the Lee men and women.
Download or read book Chronicles of the Scotch Irish Settlement in Virginia written by Augusta County (Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches written by Ruth Hairston Early and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book West Virginia Bred written by Charles Hughes Mitchell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of eight generations of one family in West Virginia, and mirrors the joy, trials, and tribulations, of that family, as it grew and matured with the state itself. The story reflects the mores and customs of the Scotch-Irish and English ancestral background of the Mitchell family as well as that of surrounding Appalachia in general.
Download or read book Irons in the Fire written by Laura Croghan Kamoie and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This business-family saga contributes a pivotal perspective to contemporary debates about the economic modernity of the South.
Download or read book The Custis Chronicles written by James B. Lynch (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Custis family of Virginia was one of the prominent and powerful families of Virginia's landed gentry. They were related by marriage to such other prominent families as the Byrds, Fitzhughs, Lees and Washingtons. The ealiest ancestors of the Custis family of Virginia appear to have come from the Cotswalds in Gloucestershire, England. Edmund Cliffe (b.1568) appears to have gone by the alias of Custis. His descendants took the name Custis and some of them moved to both Holland and Ireland. In about 1650, Edmund Custis arrived in eastern Virginia. One of his sons, John Custis I built Arlington plantation which later became the home of Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Anne Randolph Custis. Descendants live in Virginia and other parts of the United States.
Download or read book We Were Always Free written by T. O. Madden and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many other southern free Negro families originating in the colonial era (when many whites, women, as well as men were subject to servitude), the family of T. O. Madden, Jr., began with the birth in 1758 of his great-great-grandmother Sarah Madden. She is one of the two ancestors to whom he dedicates this book. Sarah's mother, Mary Madden, contributed the surname that endured. Mary Madden was an Irishwoman who had probably immigrated as a servant a few years before Sarah's birth. Although the myths of Virginia would make every colonial who was white into an aristocrat, Mary Madden, like most eighteenth-century Virginians, was indigent. But unlike many others, she was free. Of Sarah Madden's father, nothing is known. The legal definition of mixed-race children of blacks and whites had been settled in 1662, when the Virginia legislature enacted laws prohibiting interracial marriages and declaring that children followed the status of their mother. Such legislation made children like Sarah Madden free, but illegitimate.
Download or read book The Black Angels written by Maria Smilios and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuberculosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed sanatorium, dubbed “the pest house,” where it was said that “no one left alive.” Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women known by their patients as the “Black Angels.” For twenty years, they risked their lives working under appalling conditions while caring for New York’s poorest residents, who languished in wards, waiting to die, or became guinea pigs for experimental surgeries and often deadly drugs. But despite their major role in desegregating the New York City hospital system—and their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculosis at Sea View—these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story, celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival.
Download or read book Orange County Chronicles written by Patricia LaLand and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of Virginia's Piedmont, Orange County has a storied cultural heritage. Local writer Patricia LaLand presents a collection of tales that recounts the fascinating history of this beloved county. Relive the days when the Virginia Central Railway ran through Gordonsville and brought travelers to the Exchange Hotel, a time when hard work in Orange's silk mill supported entire communities and when a humble one-room schoolhouse in Rapidan educated local children. From James Madison's Montpelier home to the remains of statesman John Barbour's residence and all points in between, this one-of-a-kind collection covers the historic reaches of Orange County and paints a vivid portrait of the county's past.
Download or read book My Dearest Angel written by Katie Letcher Lyle and published by Ohio University Center for International Studies. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piecing together the voluminous letters, their granddaughter, noted author Katie Letcher Lyle, has succeeded in giving us an intimate panorama of the full and oftentimes wrenching lives led by Greenlee and Katie Letcher. Interspersing the narrative of their life with extensive passages from their letters, Lyle has constructed a hybrid of conventional biography and a traditional documentary edition, allowing the reader a full sample of domestic life, family secrets, and the social history of twentieth-century Virginia and the South.
Download or read book History of West Virginia v 2 3 Family and personal history written by Thomas Condit Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lees of Virginia written by Paul C. Nagel and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether opposing Nathaniel Bacon and his rebels in 1676, condemning English colonial policy in 1776, or turning back the Union Army at the Seven Days' Battles of 1862, the descendants of Richard and Anne Lee have occupied a preeminent place in American history. Two were signers of the Declaration of Independence and several others distinguished themselves during the Revolutionary War. And one, Robert E. Lee, remains widely admired for his lofty character and military success. In 'The Lees of Virginia', Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, from the family founder Richard to General Robert E. Lee, covering over two hundred years of American history.
Download or read book The Custis Chronicles written by James B. Lynch (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Custis family of Virginia was one of the prominent and powerful families of Virginia's landed gentry. They were related by marriage to such other prominent families as the Byrds, Fitzhughs, Lees and Washingtons. The ealiest ancestors of the Custis family of Virginia appear to have come from the Cotswalds in Gloucestershire, England. Edmund Cliffe (b.1568) appears to have gone by the alias of Custis. His descendants took the name Custis and some of them moved to both Holland and Ireland. In about 1650, Edmund Custis arrived in eastern Virginia. One of his sons, John Custis I built Arlington plantation which later became the home of Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Anne Randolph Custis. Descendants live in Virginia and other parts of the United States.
Download or read book Chronicles of Core written by Earl Lemley Core and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
