Ladies and Gentlemen on Display
Ladies and Gentlemen on Display

Author: Charlene M. Boyer Lewis

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780813920801

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Written as a dissertation in history at the U. of Virginia, this study recreates the societal mores displayed at summer resorts at Virginia Springs from 1790-1860, as this was recorded in the letters and other archives of families who sojourned there. Lewis (history, Widener U.) suggests that her history provides a new insight into plantation society by recording responses to unusual events and lack of routine. She supplements the account with some analysis of the sources for the romantic and idealistic views of this culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Who's who
Who's who

Author: Henry Robert Addison

Publisher:

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 3460

ISBN-13:

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An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."

The Family
The Family

Author: Kitty Kelley

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2004-09-14

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0385514050

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From the First Lady of unauthorized, tell-all biography, this is the first real inside-look at the most powerful–and secretive–family in the world. From Senator Prescott Bush's alcoholism, to his son George Herbert Walker Bush's infidelities, to George Walker Bush's religious conversion, shady financial deals, and military manipulations, Kitty Kelley captures the portrait of a family that has whitewashed its own story almost out of existence.

Pocahontas's People
Pocahontas's People

Author: Helen C. Rountree

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780806128498

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In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with English colonists, in 1607, to their present-day way of life and relationship to the state of Virginia and the federal government. Roundtree’s examination of those four hundred years misses not a beat in the pulse of Powhatan life. Combining meticulous scholarship and sensitivity, the author explores the diversity always found among Powhatan people, and those people’s relationships with the English, the government of the fledgling United States, the Union and the Confederacy, the U.S. Census Bureau, white supremacists, the U.S. Selective Service, and the civil rights movement.

Guide to the Draper Manuscripts
Guide to the Draper Manuscripts

Author: Josephine L. Harper

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Published: 2014-09-08

Total Pages: 867

ISBN-13: 0870206834

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In the mid-nineteenth century the Wisconsin Historical Society's first director, Lyman C. Draper, gathered outstanding materials such as the Daniel Boone papers, which include Draper's interviews with Boone's son, and the papers of Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. These two collections alone are of vast significance to frontier history before 1830, but the full collection comprises nearly five hundred volumes of records, including military and government records, interviews, Draper's own research notes, and rare personal letters. For scholars, genealogists, and local historians, the Draper papers offer a wealth of information on the social, economic, and cultural conditions experienced by our frontier forebears. The 180-page index lists thousands of names and is an indispensable guide for all who wish to use the collection, which is available in libraries across the country on microfilm.