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Languages : en
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Grave listing for the Branxton Catholic Cemetery
Author: Grave Listing for the Branxton Catholic Cemetary
Author: John William DelaneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781875916252
Category : Branxton (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
By the Banks of the Holly
Author: B. M. MollohanPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595347231
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The land was called "Virginia" by Sir Walter Raleigh. A region of natural beauty, governed by temperamental weather, the western slopes of the Alleghenies beckoned a sturdy stock of early hunters, explorers, and settlers. This is the story of how those early residents forged a home, a nation, and finally, a state, along these rocky slopes.
The WPA Guide to Alabama
Author: Federal Writers' ProjectPublisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 159534201X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Alabama takes the reader on a journey of through the heart of Dixie, from the Gulf coast to the rich Black Belt region and the scenic Cumberland Plateau. First published in 1941, the guide goes beyond the popular images of cotton fields and plantation houses of the old south and brings to light the “magic” of Birmingham’s burgeoning manufacturing industry, the vibrant university life in Tuscaloosa, and, in Mobile, the cultural diversity of Alabama’s port city. The guide includes striking photos of Southern poverty during the Depression.
Cities of Silence
Author: John Sturdivant SledgePublisher: University Alabama Press
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This beautiful photojournal is a visually stunning tour of the history and funerary art of Mobile's 19th-century urban cemeteries.
Resting Places
Author: Scott WilsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786479922
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 887
Book Description
In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates, a brief summary of the subject's claim to fame and their burial site location or as much as is known. Grave location within a cemetery is provided in many cases, as well as places of cremation and sites where ashes were scattered. Source information is provided.
Alabama
Author: Alyce Billings WalkerPublisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A chronicle of intense economic, cultural, and political activity that began when Spanish sea captains and explorers reached this bountiful land nearly 100 years before the settlement of Plymouth and Jamestown.
Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society
Author: Alabama Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The Negro in Virginia
Author: Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9780895871190
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, who directed his slaves to cut 30 feet off a mountaintop for the site of Monticello. Slavery in the Old Dominion began in 1619, when a Spanish frigate was captured and its cargo of Negroes brought to Jamestown. Virginia Negroes experienced slavery as field laborers, as skilled craftsmen, as house servants. In 1935, the Virginia Writers' Project began collecting data for a history of Negroes in the Old Dominion through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression. Published in 1940 as "The Negro in Virginia", it was regarded as a "classic of its kind." Modern readers will be surprised at how relevant it remains today. -- From publisher's description.
The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales
Author: Ruth Ann MusickPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813101361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.