Author: William Henry DabneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia
Author: William Henry DabneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis Dabney
Author: Thomas Cary JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Robert Lewis Dabney, 1820-1898, a minister in Virginia.
Some Prominent Virginia Families
Author: Louise Pecquet du BelletPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Some Prominent Virginia Families
Author: Louise Pecquet du BelletPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806307226
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 1756
Book Description
Index to Printed Virginia Genealogies
Author: Robert Armistead StewartPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806304189
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A Bibliography of Virginia ...: Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Contents.--pt. 1. Titles of books in the Virginia State Library which relate to Virginia and Virginians, the titles of those books written by Virginians, and of those printed in Virginia, but not including ... published official documents.--pt. 2. Titles of the printed official documents of the Commonwealth, 1776-1916.--pt. 3. The Acts and Journals of the General Assembly of the Colony, 1619-1776.--pt. 4. Three series of sessional documents of the House of Delegates: ... January 7-April 4, 1861 ... September 15-October 6, 1862; and .. January 7-March 31, 1863.--pt. 5. Titles of the printed documents of the Commonwealth, 1916-1925.
A Bibliography of Virginia
Author: Earl Gregg SwemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
John Henry and His People
Author: John GarstPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476686114
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The song "John Henry," perhaps America's greatest folk ballad, is about an African-American steel driver who raced and beat a steam drill, dying "with his hammer in his hand" from the effort. Most singers and historians believe John Henry was a real person, not a fictitious one, and that his story took place in West Virginia--though other places have been proposed. John Garst argues convincingly that it took place near Dunnavant, Alabama, in 1887. The author's reconstruction, based on contemporaneous evidence and subsequent research, uncovers a fascinating story that supports the Dunnavant location and provides new insights. Beyond John Henry, readers will discover the lives and work of his people: Black and white singers; his "captain," contractor Frederick Dabney; C. C. Spencer, the most credible eyewitness; John Henry's wife; the blind singer W. T. Blankenship, who printed the first broadside of the ballad; and later scholars who studied John Henry. The book includes analyses of the song's numerous iterations, several previously unpublished illustrations and a foreword by folklorist Art Rosenbaum.
Catalogue of French Books
Author: Edwin F. ConelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
They Will Have Their Game
Author: Kenneth CohenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501714201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished correspondence, and material and visual evidence, Cohen demonstrates how investors, participants, and professional managers and performers from all sorts of backgrounds saw these "sporting" activities as stages for securing economic and political advantage over others. They Will Have Their Game tracks the evolution of this fight for power from 1760 to 1860, showing how its roots in masculine competition and risk-taking gradually developed gendered and racial limits and then spread from leisure activities to the consideration of elections as "races" and business as a "game." The result reorients the standard narrative about the rise of commercial popular culture to question the influence of ideas such as "gentility" and "respectability," and to put men like P. T. Barnum at the end instead of the beginning of the process, unveiling a new take on the creation of the white male republic of the early nineteenth century in which sporting activities lie at the center and not the margins of economic and political history.