Hakutulokset: virginia
yhteensä 19 hakutulosta
The Bioarchaeology of Virginia Burial Mounds
By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds - reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet - marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built …
Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
This book discusses the daily life and culture of enslaved Africans and their descendants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants comprised a significant portion of colonial …
Letters from Alabama
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age 17 and made his way to Alabama in 1838, where he had heard educated people were in demand. He was employed by …
A Belle of the Fifties
This memoir provides an account of events in Washington and Richmond before, during and immediately following the Civil War. It offers an insight into the important events of the …
The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman
A witness who brings remarkable life and color to the Civil War in the East Robert Hubard was an enlisted man and officer of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry in the Army of Northern …
Toting the Lead Row
“You recall the expression `toting the lead row’, don’t you? In chopping cotton or corn there is always a leader, one who can chop the fastest of them all. When he finishes his …
Southwest Virginia's Railroad
This work examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the …
Standing Before the Shouting Mob
This book provides a vivid portrayal of one southern journalist's campaign for racial justice.Lenoir Chambers was editor of the ""Norfolk Virginian-Pilot"" during the 1950s [and] …
The Confederate Negro
A superb work in the social history of American industry A Gettysburg College 'Top 200 Civil War Books' selection Mayflower Award Winner for 1970