Author: Alice Böhmer RuddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia: April 10, 1822-December 31, 1850
Author: Alice Böhmer RuddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation
Author: Emily WilliamsPublisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1648890555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann’s tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop’s belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. “Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation” examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.
Death and Rebirth in a Southern City
Author: Ryan K. SmithPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421439271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A brilliant example of public history, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City reveals how cemeteries can frame changes in politics and society across time.
The Southern Genealogist's Exchange Quarterly
Author: Genealogy Division Subject Catalog, 1976-1984: P-Z
Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
National Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: National Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
The Maryland and Delaware Genealogist
Author: Genealogy & History
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.