American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994
American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994

Author: James Roger Sharp

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1999-06-30

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0313032068

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The third of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Following an insightful analytical introduction, the entries provide biographical and career information on all of the Southern speakers. The volume concludes with valuable statistical appendixes based on an exhaustive database. This book complements volumes on the West and Midwest. A volume on the Northeast is forthcoming.

Visions of Zion
Visions of Zion

Author: James Larry Hood

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780761830658

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Three decades after the Civil War-amidst a resurgent patriotic fervor, a new Christian Awakening and an enveloping modernization promising heretofore unimagined heights of prosperity and well-being-a new generation of Americans in rural Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky, were experiencing what Lincoln in their fathers' war had promised: a new birth of freedom. Before them they saw the ancient vision of Zion, America as the new Promised Land, the Christian Republic, the Shining City on a Hill, shedding its light of prosperity and freedom on all. Their destiny and calling, they had no doubt, was to secure liberty and its blessings for themselves and posterity. This was the Vision and the hope that united them as a people and as a crusading army at home and abroad, inspiring a multitude of social and political reforms and drawing them into the Great War of 1914-1918. It is this story that Visions of Zion tells-of dreams that united and divided, that lifted up and brought low-a story of a drive for everlasting peace that led to war and that finally ends with the collapse of Zion and fading of all those wondrous dreams of a better world.

Laurel County, Kentucky: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of its Ancestors
Laurel County, Kentucky: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of its Ancestors

Author: M. Secrist

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1300208287

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This book aims to serve as a valuable resource for your genealogy research. Many biographical and genealogical sketches, as well as a history of Laurel County, Kentucky, has been collected and presented here. These sketches derive from a great variety sources, such as books, periodicals, vital records, war records, etc. Combined, these sketches reveal the history of Laurel County, Kentucky.