Author: Walter Groff SchwabPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The Forests of Buchanan County, Virginia
Author: Walter Groff SchwabPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Geological Series
Author: The Forests of Dickenson County, Virginia
Author: Walter Groff SchwabPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Invisible Line
Author: Daniel J. SharfsteinPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101475803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
"The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in the United States." --Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color line has become clear. In this sweeping history, Daniel J. Sharfstein unravels the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America and force us to rethink our basic assumptions about who we are. The Gibsons were wealthy landowners in the South Carolina backcountry who became white in the 1760s, ascending to the heights of the Southern elite and ultimately to the U.S. Senate. The Spencers were hardscrabble farmers in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, joining an isolated Appalachian community in the 1840s and for the better part of a century hovering on the line between white and black. The Walls were fixtures of the rising black middle class in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., only to give up everything they had fought for to become white at the dawn of the twentieth century. Together, their interwoven and intersecting stories uncover a forgotten America in which the rules of race were something to be believed but not necessarily obeyed. Defining their identities first as people of color and later as whites, these families provide a lens for understanding how people thought about and experienced race and how these ideas and experiences evolved-how the very meaning of black and white changed-over time. Cutting through centuries of myth, amnesia, and poisonous racial politics, The Invisible Line will change the way we talk about race, racism, and civil rights.
The Forests of Russell County, Virginia
Author: Joseph Wilbur O'ByrnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Buchanan County
Author: Brenda S. BaldwinPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738543970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Often referred to as America's last frontier, Buchanan County, Virginia, was formed in 1858 by Act 156 of the Virginia General Assembly. The young county was named after Pres. James Buchanan, and Grundy, the county seat, was named for U.S. senator Felix Grundy, who later became attorney general in Pres. Martin Van Buren's cabinet. Images of America: Buchanan County tells the history of a county from the days of the Long Hunters--who settled the area and named its rivers, salt licks, mountains, and valleys--through the Civil War, when the mountainous terrain along the Virginia-Kentucky state line served as a no-man's-land between the Northern-Southern army, to the coal boom of the 1970s that created instant millionaires. Buchanan County has survived floods, fires, and economic and political demands to emerge anew in the year 2006.
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Bulletin
Author: Virginia. Division of Mineral ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Technical Note
Author: A Bibliography of the State Official Publications of Conservation of Fish, Forest and Game
Author: Ethel Beryl KautzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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