Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Title News
Author: Medical News and Abstract
Author: Fertilizer Abstracts
Author: The Family Tree Historical Newspapers Guide
Author: James M. BeidlerPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440350663
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
There are more historical newspaper resources than you think--and they're easier to access than you know. When researched properly, no other type of record can beat historical newspapers in "taking the pulse" of their times and places, recording not just the names, but also information important to the community. This comprehensive how-to guide will show you how to harvest the "social media" of centuries past to learn about your ancestors and the times and places they lived in. With step-by-step examples, case studies, templates, worksheets, and screenshots, this book shows you what you can find in online (and offline) historical newspapers, from city dailies to weekly community papers to foreign-language gazetteers. The Family Tree Historical Newspapers Guide features: • Tips and techniques for finding crucial genealogy records in newspapers, such as birth announcements, obituaries, and even news reports • Step-by-step guides for using popular online newspaper databases such as GenealogyBank and Newspapers.com • Case studies that will put information found in newspapers to use
The Free State of Jones
Author: Victoria E. BynumPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807854679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Across a century, Victoria Bynum reinterprets the cultural, social, and political meaning of Mississippi's longest civil war, waged in the Free State of Jones, the southeastern Mississippi county that was home to a Unionist stronghold during the Civil War and home to a large and complex mixed-race community in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Gold for the Taking
Author: Kathryn L. McKayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence (Idaho)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Compendious Abstract of Public General Acts
Author: Great BritainA Compendious Abstract of the Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Great BritainA Compendious Abstract of the Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition
Author: Victoria E. BynumPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146962706X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where they declared their loyalty to the U.S. government. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their relationship there developed a mixed-race community that endured long after the Civil War had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend--what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out--reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory. In a new afterword, Bynum updates readers on recent scholarship, current issues of race and Southern heritage, and the coming movie that make this Civil War story essential reading. The Free State of Jones film, starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Keri Russell, will be released in May 2016.