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Book Richmond Homes and Memories

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  • Author : Robert Beverley Munford Jr.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781258402549
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Richmond Homes and Memories written by Robert Beverley Munford Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richmond Homes and Memories

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  • Author : Robert Beverley 1878- Munford
  • Publisher : Hassell Street Press
  • Release : 2021-09-09
  • ISBN : 9781014689832
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Richmond Homes and Memories written by Robert Beverley 1878- Munford and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Richmond Homes and Memories

Download or read book Richmond Homes and Memories written by Robert Beverley Munford and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richmond Memories

Download or read book Richmond Memories written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of Old Richmond with Some Sidelights on English History

Download or read book Memories of Old Richmond with Some Sidelights on English History written by Estella Cave and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Monument Avenue Memories

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  • Author : Patricia Cecil Hass
  • Publisher : History Press Library Editions
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 9781540208477
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Monument Avenue Memories written by Patricia Cecil Hass and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally a tribute to Robert E. Lee, Richmond's Monument Avenue grew to its zenith in the early twentieth century as a place of wealth and privilege. Richmond native and child of Monument Avenue Patricia Hass has collected the loving memories of those who shared a childhood among the River City's elite. These pages are filled with recollections of warm afternoons playing in the shadows of the monuments and visits to neighborhood institutions such as Reuben's Deli and the Capitol Theatre. While the children played, their families entertained famous houseguests such as David Niven, Lord and Lady Astor and Winston Churchill. Enter each historic home along the avenue and travel back to a time now lost to memory.

Book Memories of Old Richmond

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  • Author : Estella Cave
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2017-10-21
  • ISBN : 9780282780647
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Memories of Old Richmond written by Estella Cave and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memories of Old Richmond: With Some Sidelights on English History The blackbird flutters away in a rain of petals. Under the open window a land-girl passes, Dainty as Rosalind, in her short white smock, Corduroy breeches and leggings, and soft slouch-hat. She swings her basket, happy in her new freedom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book To Die For

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  • Author : Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-05
  • ISBN : 0691188505
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book To Die For written by Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July Fourth, "The Star-Spangled Banner," Memorial Day, and the pledge of allegiance are typically thought of as timeless and consensual representations of a national, American culture. In fact, as Cecilia O'Leary shows, most trappings of the nation's icons were modern inventions that were deeply and bitterly contested. While the Civil War determined the survival of the Union, what it meant to be a loyal American remained an open question as the struggle to make a nation moved off of the battlefields and into cultural and political terrain. Drawing upon a wide variety of original sources, O'Leary's interdisciplinary study explores the conflict over what events and icons would be inscribed into national memory, what traditions would be invented to establish continuity with a "suitable past," who would be exemplified as national heroes, and whether ethnic, regional, and other identities could coexist with loyalty to the nation. This book traces the origins, development, and consolidation of patriotic cultures in the United States from the latter half of the nineteenth century up to World War I, a period in which the country emerged as a modern nation-state. Until patriotism became a government-dominated affair in the twentieth century, culture wars raged throughout civil society over who had the authority to speak for the nation: Black Americans, women's organizations, workers, immigrants, and activists all spoke out and deeply influenced America's public life. Not until World War I, when the government joined forces with right-wing organizations and vigilante groups, did a racially exclusive, culturally conformist, militaristic patriotism finally triumph, albeit temporarily, over more progressive, egalitarian visions. As O'Leary suggests, the paradox of American patriotism remains with us. Are nationalism and democratic forms of citizenship compatible? What binds a nation so divided by regions, languages, ethnicity, racism, gender, and class? The most thought-provoking question of this complex book is, Who gets to claim the American flag and determine the meanings of the republic for which it stands?

Book Preserving the Old Dominion

Download or read book Preserving the Old Dominion written by James Michael Lindgren and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889 tradition-minded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), the first state preservation organization in the United States. And where better? After all, who else could so readily claim both colonial and Confederate heritage, both Jamestown and the White House of the Confederacy? In Preserving the Old Dominion cultural historian James Lindgren shows how the preservation movement strove to rebuild a revered past upon the foundations of its historic structures. While vividly capturing entertaining incidents - white-gloved pilgrimages, a Richmond costume ball, even a search for a Jamestown Rock to set back those arriviste New Englanders - and introducing battling (often with each other) preservationists, Lindgren also explores the serious consequences of these sometimes amusing efforts. He shows how the reinvention of the past shaped contemporary Virginia and the South. In a very real sense the battle between North and South was replayed at the end of the nineteenth century in a contest to control the nation's past. The AVPA's significance lies not only in the fact that it played a major role in the resurgence of conservatism in the late nineteenth-century South, but that it fits into a larger American picture where tradition-minded Americans tapped their history - whether imagined or real - to shape their identity. Preserving the Old Dominion incorporates history, anthropology, architecture, archaeology, religion, and politics; it will be of interest to historians in all fields as well as women's studies scholars.

Book Copping it Sweet

Download or read book Copping it Sweet written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of Old Richmond

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  • Author : Countess Ann Estella Sarah Penfold Cave
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1922
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Memories of Old Richmond written by Countess Ann Estella Sarah Penfold Cave and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Builder of the New South

Download or read book A Builder of the New South written by Lily Logan Morrill and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Thomas M. Logan was one of the youngest Confederate commanders of the Civil War. After the war, he was instrumental in mobilizing the modernization of the rail system in Virginia and called for national reconciliation and for the equal rights and education of women and former slaves.

Book Stonewall s Man

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  • Author : W. G. Bean
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780807848753
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Stonewall s Man written by W. G. Bean and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by UNC Press in 1959, this biography tells the story of Alexander (Sandie) Swift Pendleton, a high-spirited and intelligent Confederate staff officer from Virginia who, at the age of twenty-two, won the confidence, admiration, and affectio

Book The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough

Download or read book The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough written by Margaret Loughborough and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Cabell Brown's Recollections, written in 1911, provide a woman's perspective on the Civil War. While her husband enlisted in the Confederate Army, Margaret worked for the Confederate government in Richmond. This diary is not about battle and glory, but rather details the realities of life during the Civil War

Book The Dooleys of Richmond

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  • Author : Mary Lynn Bayliss
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2017-05-15
  • ISBN : 0813939992
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book The Dooleys of Richmond written by Mary Lynn Bayliss and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South. While most Irish Catholic immigrants who poured into the region in the nineteenth century were poor and illiterate, John and Sarah Dooley were affluent and well educated. They brought sophistication and capital to Virginia, where John established one of the largest hat manufacturing companies in the United States. Noted for their business acumen and community service, the Dooleys became leaders in business, education, culture, and politics in Virginia. A bellwether of the South during these tumultuous times, the Dooleys' fortunes would rise and fall and rise again. Mary Lynn Bayliss recounts the family’s history during their prosperous antebellum years, John and his sons’ service in the Confederate army, John’s exploits as leader of the Richmond Ambulance Committee, and the loss of the entire Dooley retail and manufacturing operations during the final days of the Civil War. After the war the Dooleys’ son James, a leading Richmond lawyer and philanthropist, devoted half a century to developing railroad networks across the United States, and became a key figure in the industrialization of the New South. He and his wife, Sallie, built Maymont, the famed Gilded Age estate that remains a major attraction in Richmond. The story of the Dooleys is a fascinating window on southern society and the people who shaped its grand and turbulent history.

Book Children of the Streets of Richmond  1865 1920

Download or read book Children of the Streets of Richmond 1865 1920 written by Harry M. Ward and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virginia's capital was cosmopolitan, boisterous and crime-ridden. From 1905 to 1915 there was an official red light district. The police had their hands full with drunks and riffraff, and a variety of street urchins and waifs--most of whom were very poor--found themselves on the wrong side of the law. The juvenile delinquents of Richmond--some barely out of infancy--were held accountable in the Police Court. A juvenile court system was not established until 1916. Presiding over the Police Court for 32 years was Justice John Jeter Crutchfield who, though unlearned in the law, functioned like a biblical Solomon but with great showmanship. The Police Court attracted many tourists and some of Virginia's literary figures cut their teeth writing newspaper coverage of the proceedings, vying with each other for the most hilarious slant. What emerges from the public record is an amusing and touching picture of what life was really like in the post-Reconstruction urban South.

Book Monument Avenue

Download or read book Monument Avenue written by Kathy Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: