Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee (Supplement)
Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee (Supplement)

Author: Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.

Publisher: Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13:

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"Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee" introduced Henry Jackson "Jack" Dunavant (1875-1928) and described many of the large-scale construction projects he completed in North Carolina and throughout the South. (Charlotte's Dunavant Street was named in his honor.) It also introduced his wife, Louise Wert Dunavant (1886-1967), and described how she supervised the initial construction of Charlotte's Carolina Golf Club and successfully launched that project during the Great Depression. This supplemental e-book introduced their immediate family and related families, and this latest edition also recalls how the Henkel - Dunavants of Statesville helped to develop the beautiful mountain town of Blowing Rock. This two-volume work received both a History Book Award and a Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians in 2015.

Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee
Railroad Builders: The Dunavant Family of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee

Author: Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.

Publisher: Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1312361549

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By 1856, the Dunavants had begun building railroads and they would eventually be among the South's prominent railroad contractors. As they migrated from Virginia to North Carolina and Tennessee, they added to those regions new railroads, mills, hotels, golf clubs, dams and tunnels. For 73 years, from 1856 to 1929, their large-scale construction projects contributed substantially to the development of Southside Virginia, Western North Carolina (Morganton, Charlotte, Statesville, Asheville and Blowing Rock), Tennessee (Memphis), and other southern states. The naming of Dunavant Street in Charlotte paid homage to former resident and builder, Henry Jackson Dunavant. In downtown Morganton, Samuel David Dunavant organized Burke County’s first mill (the Dunavant Cotton Mnfg. Co., later known as the Alpine Cotton Mill); its building has been added to the National Historic Register. (2015 Recipient of a History Book Award and a Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians)

Women and Capital Punishment in the United States
Women and Capital Punishment in the United States

Author: David V. Baker

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1476622884

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The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. The book includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in potentially capital cases and a profile of the current female death row population.

Integrative Pediatric Oncology
Integrative Pediatric Oncology

Author: Alfred Längler

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-13

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 3642042015

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This book covers a broad spectrum of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices employed in pediatric oncology worldwide, with a special focus on the methods widely used in Western countries. It is a scientifically based, practice-oriented handbook that will meet the needs of pediatric oncologists working in medical practices and hospitals. An introductory section includes a comparative overview of current CAM use in pediatric oncology in different countries. Commonly used CAM methods are then discussed in a series of chapters that provide a theoretical description of the method in question, followed by more practically oriented information, including scientific data if applicable. Special attention is paid to the issue of how to integrate each method into conventional pediatric oncology. The closing parts of the book consider aspects of CAM requiring further development, such as institutional research, and provide a road map on establishing integrative pediatric oncology worldwide.