Cradle of America
Cradle of America

Author: Peter Wallenstein

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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In this first single-authored history of Virginia since the 1970s, Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion.

Cradle of a Nation
Cradle of a Nation

Author: Diana M. Johnson

Publisher:

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780966150445

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The following brief synopsis should be placed with ISBN 0-9661504-4-9 (Cradle of a Nation)Synopsis William Daingerfield yearns to follow his father's footsteps as master of Greenfield gentleman justice of the peace for Essex County, and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. Told through the eyes of William and his faithful companion and personal slave, Davy, Cradle of a Nation describes life in Colonial Virginia. The loves and marriages. Births and deaths. Dreams and passions.In time, William and Davy's sons go off together to fight the French and Indians, to protect Virginia's claim to the Ohio River Valley. When they do, no one realizes this will be the last time Red Coats and Blue will fight on the same side. Or, that William and Davy will be the last generation of Colonial Americans!