Author: Francis Butler SimkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Virginia: History, Government, Geography
Author: Francis Butler SimkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
You Need a Schoolhouse
Author: Stephanie DeutschPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127903
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Discusses the friendship between Booker T. Wahington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and how, through their friendship, they were able to build five thousand schools for African Americans in the Southern states.
Mapping Virginia
Author: William C. WooldridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9780813932675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A comprehensive collection of printed maps from the state of Virginia's history, from the years preceding Jamestown to the beginning of the postbellum era.
Virginia Geography Projects
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 0635018640
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Grades K-8. Features 30 geography projects for kids to complete-and includes actual state facts. Each project is quick, easy, and inexpensive! Projects include: constructing a replica of the state's capitol building; creating a montage of the wildlife that lives in our state using cut-out pictures; recreating the path of a state river using a wire coat hanger; building a state tree from fresh or dried leaves/ needles from as many trees as possible; and more! Students will have a blast creating projects sure to end up as part of a geography resource center-all about your state! Most projects use ordinary, easy-to-access materials. 32 pages.
Ready-to-go Super Book of Outline Maps
Author: Scholastic, Inc. StaffPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439117616
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more.
Geography of Virginia
Author: George Thomas SurfacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
Author: Allan CarpenterPublisher: Pharos Books
ISBN: 9780886877248
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Most exhaustive reference of the fifty states, including full-color maps.
Conserving the Commonwealth
Author: Margaret T. PetersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Conserving the Commonwealth is the book that anyone interested in conservation and environmental issues has been waiting for. This history describes the earliest days of Virginia's environmental movement, recounting the efforts of a farsighted group of leaders to preserve Virginia's priceless resources--open land, waterways, and historic sites--and to create new parks within reach of all the state's citizens. In 1965, Governor Albertis Harrison selected State Senator FitzGerald Bemiss to chair a commission-the Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission-to make recommendations for improving the state's outdoor recreation facilities. Inspired by Bemiss's leadership and a newly awakened concern for the environment, the commission reached far beyond its mandate, addressing the entire range of the Commonwealth's natural and man-made resources: open land, pristine waterways, and historic buildings. The result was Virginia's Common Wealth, a publication that inspired the environmental movement for the balance of the twentieth century and served as the framework for Virginia's public efforts to conserve its natural and historic resources. Bemiss gained powerful advocates for Virginia's environment in governors Linwood Holton and Gerald L. Baliles, delegate Tayloe Murphy, attorney George Freeman, and law professor A. E. Dick Howard. Beyond the public administrative and legal history of governmental environmental efforts, Conserving the Commonwealth recounts the efforts of private groups such as the Virginia chapter of The Nature Conservancy, the Piedmont Environmental Council, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and the APVA Preservation Virginia, which all fought valiantly to preserve Virginia's fragile open spaces and irreplaceable historic sites and buildings. The book also points out that in spite of all those early efforts, the state of Virginia's environmental health today is deeply threatened. In his afterword, FitzGerald Bemiss reflects on the continuing need for regional planning, an efficient public transportation system, and funding for existing programs. Three appendices provide tabular information on Virginia's state parks and conservation easements, and include the text of a 1965 article by FitzGerald Bemiss on urban political needs. The book will be of interest to planners, environmentalists, and preservationists, and to all who care about preserving Virginia's natural resources.
Feminist Geography Unbound: Discount, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures
Author: Banu GörkarikselPublisher: Gender, Feminism, and Geograph
ISBN: 9781949199888
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A field-defining collection of new voices on gender, feminism, and geography.
Virginia
Author: Betty Bruce ShepardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781893622142
Category : Alphabet books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Virginia: An Alphabetical Journey Through History, is an alphabet book about the Old Dominion, with entries on the people, places, things and events that make Virginia one of most interesting states in the union.