Central Virginia Heritage Winter 2016
Central Virginia Heritage Winter 2016

Author: Jean Cooper

Publisher:

Published: 2016-12-08

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781541021891

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The Central Virginia Genealogical Association's primary publication, Central Virginia Heritage, dates from 1983. Our research interests are primarily on the old counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Hanover, and Orange; that is, the present Piedmont counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Hanover, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, and Orange, and the Shenandoah Valley counties of Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah. However, if useful articles come to us on research in other nearby counties of Virginia, we will happily consider them for publication.The current issue (v.32, no.4) offers articles on such topics as transcriptions of slave lists from Louisa, Hanover, and Amherst Counties, the Library of Virginia, the Wyatt Family of Albemarle County, and news of interest to members of CVGA.

Central Virginia Heritage Winter 2018
Central Virginia Heritage Winter 2018

Author: Central Virginia Genealogical Association

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781723823626

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The Central Virginia Genealogical Association's primary publication, Central Virginia Heritage, dates from 1983. Our research interests are primarily on the old counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Hanover, and Orange; that is, the present Piedmont counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Hanover, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, and Orange, and the Shenandoah Valley counties of Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah. However, if useful articles come to us on research in other nearby counties of Virginia, we will happily consider them for publication. The current issue (v.34, no.4) contains articles on A Country Thanksgiving, Buckingham County Gold, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations for Family Historians, What's All this about DNA?, Marriage announcement from the Charlottesville Daily Progress (1893), and Spanish Influenza in Central Virginia, 1918.

One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center

Author: Judith Dupré

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0316353590

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From the bestselling author of Skyscrapers, the behind-the-scenes story of the most extraordinary building in the world: One World Trade Center. The new World Trade Center represents one of the most complex collaborations in human history. Nearly every state in the nation, a dozen countries around the world, and more than 25,000 workers helped raise the tower, which consumed ninety million pounds of steel, one million square feet of glass, and enough concrete to pave a sidewalk from New York to Chicago. With more than seventy interviews with the people most intimately involved, and unprecedented access to the building site, suppliers, and archives, Duprè unfurls the definitive story of fourteen years of conflict and controversy-and its triumphant resolution. This fascinating, oversize book delivers new insight into the 1,776-foot-tall engineering marvel, from design and excavation through the final placement of its spire. It offers: Access to the minds of world-class architects, engineers, ironworkers, and other tradespeople Panoramas of New York from One World Observatory-1,268 feet above the earth Dramatic cutaways that show the building's advanced structural technologies A time-lapse montage showing the evolution of the sixteen-acre site Chronologies tracking design, construction, and financial milestones, with rare historic photographs It also features extensive tour of the entire Trade Center, including in-depth chapters on Two, Three, Four, and Seven World Trade Center; the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; Liberty Park; St. Nicholas National Shrine; and the soaring Transportation Hub. One World Trade Center is the only book authorized by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, and the one book necessary to understand the new World Trade Center in its totality. This is a must-have celebration of American resilience and ingenuity for all who are invested in the rebuilding of Ground Zero.

Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations
Index to Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations

Author: Jean L. Cooper

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-10-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 078645444X

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Designed for both professional and amateur genealogists and other researchers, this index provides a detailed guide to materials available in the extensive Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations microfilm set. By using this index to identify specific collections in which materials pertinent to a specific family name, plantation name, or location may be found, and then reviewing the details in the appropriate Guides (see Preface), the researcher may pinpoint the location of desired materials. The items indexed include deeds, wills, estate papers, genealogies, personal and business correspondence, account books, slave lists, and many other types of records. This new edition also includes a list of all of the manuscript collections included in the microfilm set.

Central Virginia Heritage Winter 2017
Central Virginia Heritage Winter 2017

Author: Central Virginia Genealogical Association

Publisher:

Published: 2017-12-08

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781981563418

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The Central Virginia Genealogical Association's primary publication, Central Virginia Heritage, dates from 1983. Our research interests are primarily on the old counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Hanover, and Orange; that is, the present Piedmont counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Hanover, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, and Orange, and the Shenandoah Valley counties of Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah. However, if useful articles come to us on research in other nearby counties of Virginia, we will happily consider them for publication. The current issue (v.33, no.4) offers articles on such topics as James Madison's mother, Nelly Conway; the value of obituaries; Christmas memories of a native Central Virginian; several Bills of Complaint and Wills from Virginia Chancery Court Records and the Orange County Court House, and a manumission deed.

Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative
Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative

Author: Victor C.M. Chan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-23

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1003802036

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This book explores how China’s Belt and Road Initiative through promoting a non-Western-centred geopolitical narrative is affecting the conservation and management of Belt and Road heritage sites. Considering the dynamics between academics, heritage professionals, and government officials, the inscription process and management of Silk Roads heritage sites, and the practice of China’s Belt and Road heritage diplomacy, the book examines how changing heritage conservation practices are influenced by politics and professionalism and negotiated in different ways across different nation states in the Belt and Road zones. Highlighting the different aims and outlooks of Chinese diplomacy, UNESCO and other international heritage conservation organisations, nation states as guardians of national interests, and local communities as custodians of everyday lived heritage, it shows how the Belt and Road Initiative has energised multilateral efforts in heritage diplomacy and management. It also discusses how the ‘professional’ status of heritage professionals, including practitioners engaged by governments and international organisations and also scholars and researchers who provide consultancy advice, is often not politics-free, with heritage professionals often co-opted into speaking for stakeholders, especially national governments.

Cry Havoc
Cry Havoc

Author: Michael Signer

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1541736133

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The former mayor of Charlottesville delivers a vivid, first-person chronicle of the terror and mayhem of the August 2017 "Unite the Right" event, and shows how issues of extremism are affecting not just one city but the nation itself. The deadly invasion of Charlottesville, Virginia, by white nationalist militias in August 2017 is a microcosm of the challenges facing American democracy today. In his first-person account of one of recent American history's most polarizing events, Michael Signer, then Charlottesville's mayor, both tells the story of what really happened and draws out its larger significance. Signer's gripping, strikingly candid "you are there" narrative sets the events on the ground-the lead-up to August's "Unite the Right" rally, the days of the weekend itself, the aftermath-in the larger context of a country struggling to find its way in a disruptive new era. He confronts some of the most challenging questions of our moment, namely how can we: Reconcile free speech with the need for public order? Maintain the values of pragmatism, compromise, even simple civility, in a time of intensification of extremes on the right and the left? Address systemic racism through our public spaces and memorials? Provide accountability after a crisis? While Signer shows how easily our communities can be taken hostage by forces intent on destroying democratic norms and institutions, he concludes with a stirring call for optimism, revealing how the tragic events of Charlottesville are also bolstering American democracy from within.

The Struggle for Change
The Struggle for Change

Author: Marvin T. Chiles

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 081395035X

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A Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond’s racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the city’s current racial disparities in economic mobility, housing, and public education actually represent the unintended consequences of Richmond’s racial reconciliation measures. He deftly weaves municipal politics together with grassroots efforts, examining the work and legacies of Richmond’s Black leaders, from Henry Marsh on the city council in the 1960s to Mayor Levar Stoney, to highlight the urban revitalization and public history efforts meant to overcome racial divides after Jim Crow yet which ironically reinforced racial inequality across the city. Compellingly written, this project carries both local and broader regional significance for Richmonders, Virginians, southerners, and all Americans.