Author : Rick Steelhammer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1493001655
It Happened in West Virginia takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Mountain State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Author : Virginia Bernhard
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0826219519
Subject: In this fascinating tale of England's first two New World colonies, Bernhard links Virginia and Bermuda in a series of unintended consequences resulting from natural disaster, ignorance of native cultures, diplomatic intrigue, and the fateful arrival of the first Africans in both colonies. --from publisher description
Author : Francis Butler Simkins
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Virginia
ISBN :
Author : Dale M. Brumfield
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1467137634
Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed by U.S. Capitol and White House architect Benjamin Latrobe, the "Pen" opened its doors in 1800. Vice President Aaron Burr was incarcerated there in 1807 as he awaited trial for treason. The prison endured severe overcrowding, three fires, an earthquake and numerous riots. More than 240 prisoners were executed there by electric chair. At one time, the ACLU called it the "most shameful prison in America." The institution was plagued by racial injustice, eugenics experiments and the presence of children imprisoned among adults. Join author Dale Brumfield as he charts the 190-year history of the iconic prison.
Author : Suzanne Lebsock
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393326062
Recounts the events surrounding the dramatic post-Civil War trial of a young African American sawmill hand who was accused of ax murdering a white woman on her Virginia farmyard and who implicated three other women in the crime.
Author : Charles A. Mills
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1614230560
Had General George Washington lived anywhere other than Mount Vernon, Virginia, Washington, D.C., might not exist. In this exciting collection of hidden tales from Northern Virginia, author Charles Mills highlights the important role that this region played in our nation's history from colonial to modern times. Read about the Rebel blockade of the Potomac River, the imprisonment of German POWs at super-secret Fort Hunt during World War II and the building of the Pentagon on the same site and in the same configuration as Civil War, era Fort Runyon. Meet Annandale's "bunny man, "? who inspired one of the country's wildest and scariest urban legends; learn about the slaves in Alexandria's notorious slave pens; and witness suffragists being dragged from the White House lawn and imprisoned in the Occoquan workhouse. Mills masterfully relates these and other colorful tales of the people and events that left their imprints on Northern Virginia and the nation.
Author : Emilee Hines
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1461747430
A fascinating collection of thirty-five compelling stories about events that shaped Old Dominion, It Happened in Virginia describes everything from the invention of America's original instrument, the banjo, to how Stonewall Jackson acquired his nickname.
Author : John Smith
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Bermuda Islands
ISBN : 9780598359865
Author : Lee Dorsey
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684010080
In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh made an attempt at establishing a colony at Roanoke Island, Virginia. When it was determined that additional supplies would be needed, the leader of the colony, John White, left the colonists, his daughter, and his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, on Roanoke Island to return to England. Three years later, when White and the supply ships returned, the entire colony had disappeared except for the word "Croatan" inscribed on a post. This novel attempts to resolve the mystery of the "Lost Colony" and learn the fate of Virginia Dare.
Author : Elizabeth R. Gibson
Publisher : TwoDot
Page : pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2001-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781585920730
Colorful events in Virginia's history for a cross-over audience.
