Author: Wade S. HerveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Scale Map and Record of Inscriptions in Salem Street Cemetery as of September 15, 1937
Author: Wade S. HerveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Record of Inscriptions in Salem Street Cemetery as of September 15, 1937
Author: Wade S. HerveyRecord of Inscriptions in Cross Street Cemetery as of September 15, 1937
Author: Wade S. HerveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Beyond the Archives
Author: Gesa E KirschPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809328406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This collection of highly readable essays reveals that research is not restricted to library archives. When researchers pursue information and perspectives from sources beyond the archives—from existing people and places— they are often rewarded with unexpected discoveries that enrich their research and their lives. Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process presents narratives that demystify and illuminate the research process by showing how personal experiences, family history, and scholarly research intersect. Editors Gesa E. Kirsch and Liz Rohan emphasize how important it is for researchers to tap into their passions, pursuing research subjects that attract their attention with creativity and intuition without limiting themselves to traditional archival sources and research methods. Eighteen contributors from a number of disciplines detail inspiring research opportunities that led to recently published works, while offering insights on such topics as starting and finishing research projects, using a wide range of types of sources and methods, and taking advantage of unexpected leads, chance encounters and simple clues. In addition, the narratives trace the importance of place in archival research, the parallels between the lives of research subjects and researchers, and explore archives as sites that resurrect personal, cultural, and historical memory. Beyond the Archives sheds light on the creative, joyful, and serendipitous nature of research, addressing what attracts researchers to their subjects, as well as what inspires them to produce the most thorough, complete, and engaged scholarly work. This timely and essential volume supplements traditional-method textbooks and effectively models concrete practices of retrieving and synthesizing information by professional researchers.
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.
Architecture for the Dead : Cairo's Medieval Necropolis
Author: Galila El KadiPublisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774160745
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The great medieval necropolis of Cairo, comprising two main areas that together stretch twelve kilometers from north to south, constitutes a major feature of the city's urban landscape. With monumental and smaller-scale mausolea dating from all eras since early medieval times, and boasting some of the finest examples of Mamluk architecture not just in the city but in the region, the necropolis is an unparalleled--and until now largely undocumented--architectural treasure trove. In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest--but elaborately decorated--wooden structures. The book also documents the modern settlement of the necropolis by families creating a space for the living in and among the tombs and architecture for the dead.
Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon
Author: Donald W. ParryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780934893725
Category : Book of Mormon
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Records of the Moravians in North Carolina: 1752-1775
Author: Adelaide Lisetta FriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moravians
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Ukrainian Genealogy
Author: John D. PihachPublisher: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A guide to tracing one's Ukrainian ancestry in Europe.