Author: Samuel MordecaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Virginia, Especially Richmond, in By-gone Days
Author: Samuel MordecaiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Virginia, Especially Richmond, in By-Gone Days
Author: Samuel MordecalPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020072482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Step back in time with Samuel Mordecal as he chronicles the rich history of Virginia, with a focus on its capital city Richmond. Filled with fascinating anecdotes and colorful descriptions of the people and places that shaped the region, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the American South. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Virginia, Especially Richmond, in By-gone Days
Author: Samuel MordecaiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418122980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 3
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691128677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The Retirement Series documents Jefferson's written legacy between his return to private life on 4 March 1809 and his death on 4 July 1826. During this period Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and sold his extraordinary library to the nation, but his greatest legacy from these years is the astonishing depth and breadth of his correspondence with statesmen, inventors, scientists, philosophers, and ordinary citizens on topics spanning virtually every field of human endeavor.--From publisher description.
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
This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history on an epic scale, from the earliest English encounters with the Powhatan at the falls of the James River through slavery, the Civil War, and the long reckoning that followed. And while the region's deathways and burial practices have developed in surprising directions over these centuries, one element has remained stubbornly the same: the color line. But something different is happening now. The latest phase of this history points to a quiet revolution taking place in Virginia and beyond. Where white leaders long bolstered their heritage and authority with a disregard for the graves of the disenfranchised, today activist groups have stepped forward to reorganize and reclaim the commemorative landscape for the remains of people of color and religious minorities. In Death and Rebirth in a Southern City, Ryan K. Smith explores more than a dozen of Richmond's most historically and culturally significant cemeteries. He traces the disparities between those grounds which have been well-maintained, preserving the legacies of privileged whites, and those that have been worn away, dug up, and built over, erasing the memories of African Americans and indigenous tribes. Drawing on extensive oral histories and archival research, Smith unearths the heritage of these marginalized communities and explains what the city must do to conserve these gravesites and bring racial equity to these arenas for public memory. He also shows how the ongoing recovery efforts point to a redefinition of Confederate memory and the possibility of a rebirthed community in the symbolic center of the South. The book encompasses, among others, St. John's colonial churchyard; African burial grounds in Shockoe Bottom and on Shockoe Hill; Hebrew Cemetery; Hollywood Cemetery, with its 18,000 Confederate dead; Richmond National Cemetery; and Evergreen Cemetery, home to tens of thousands of black burials from the Jim Crow era. Smith's rich analysis of the surviving grounds documents many of these sites for the first time and is enhanced by an accompanying website, www.richmondcemeteries.org. 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.
Urban Growth in the Age of Sectionalism
Author: David GoldfieldPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807124918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The urban growth of Virginia during the decade and a half before the Civil War has been an unjustly neglected subject in American history. With this authoritative book David Goldfield fills a long-standing gap in historical scholarship by providing much new information and a fresh perspective on urban development in the Old Dominion during the turbulent antebellum years. According to Goldfield’s interpretation, the urbanization of Virginia was prompted, in part, by the response of the state’s leaders to the sectionalism that increasingly influenced prewar southern ideas. Caught up in the intense competition for western trade and commerce, Virginia’s urbanizers dreamed of railroads and canals flung across the continent and bringing the wealth of the West into the Old Dominion. To realize these heroic visions, the state’s entrepreneurs planned railroad networks, invested in manufacturing, and sought to establish trade with Europe. Lynchburg and Petersburg became centers for tobacco manufacturing, the ports of Alexandria and Norfolk saw a resurgence of shipping activity, and Richmond developed flour-milling and iron-manufacturing industries. Local governments, labor systems, and the cities themselves expanded to accommodate urban growth, embracing the farmer as a partner in the urban economy. Finally, a distinct urban consciousness developed to provide an intellectual framework for the urbanization process. Despite the unprecedented growth of Virginia’s cities, however, their dreams of economic independence remained unfulfilled. By 1861 the state was more economically dependent on its northern rivals than it had ever been before. As the state reluctantly seceded from the Union, the subject of urban economic growth elicited sharp debate at the secession convention. Urban Virginia would have to wait until the “New South” years to renew the dreams of economic independence.
Catalogue. General library
Author: New York state, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1861
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library ...
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library : 1861. General Library: First Supplement
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description