Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
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At the Falls
Author: Marie Tyler-McGraw
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780807844762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to the inauguration of Douglas Wilder, America's first elected African-American governor
Never Ask Permission
Author: Mary Buford Hitz
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0813919932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHitz writes a memoir of her mother, a woman who used her family's wealth and connections to become the driving force behind any number of preservation and conservation projects in Richmond.
Ideas and Images
Author: Kenneth L. Ames
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780761989325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reprint of eleven case studies of successful history museum exhibitions supplying a compendium of highly regarded installations which can stand as a creative guide to other institutions. The contributing museum specialists analyze what works in an outstanding history exhibition from building new audiences and experimenting with new subjects to design techniques and working with consultants. Among the exhibitions featured are the Hispanic Heritage Wing of the Museum of International Folk Art and the Indianapolis Children's Museum. Includes photographs. Originally published by the American Association for State and Local History. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Richmond in By-Gone Days
Author: Mordecai Samuel Mordecai
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1429022256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Domain of Arnheim
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2015-10-21
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 1473377617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the surface, "The Domain of Arnheim" is a tale of a fantastically wealthy man called "Ellison" who desires to express "the true character, the august aims, the supreme majesty and dignity of the poetic sentiment". He achieves his goal through creating "Arnheim", a castle and landscape-garden of supreme loveliness. As Ellison says, man can't affect the "general condition of man", but must be "thrown back...upon self". The first half of the story is a discussion of Ellison's philosophies concerning man and nature, and the second a detailed description of Arnheim itself. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American author, editor, poet, and critic. Most famous for his stories of mystery and horror, he was one of the first American short story writers, and is widely considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Author: Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-10-30
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521892988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute, shepherded it through a decade-long struggle to adoption, and included it in his epitaph (along with the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the University of Virginia). The Statute's history reflects two key revolutionary principles: absolute freedom of religious conscience; and the separation of church and state. Both principles remain lively topics of debate on the contemporary religious and political scene. Papers collected here were presented at a conference sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Among the contributors are several of America's most prominent religious and political historians and experts on jurisprudence.
A History Lover's Guide to Richmond
Author: Kristin T. Thrower Stowe
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021-03-08
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1439672105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest known as the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond's history encompasses much more than the Civil War. Visit the state capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson, and tour Shockoe Bottom, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. Follow the route that enslaved people took from the ships to the auction block on the Richmond Slave Trail. Go back to Gilded Age Richmond at the Jefferson Hotel and learn the history of the statues that once lined the famed Monument Avenue. See lesser-known sites like the Maggie Walker Home and the Black History Museum in the historically African American Jackson Ward neighborhood. Local author Kristin Thrower Stowe guides a series of expeditions through the River City's past.
Finding Thalhimers
Author: Elizabeth Thalhimer Smartt
Publisher: Dementi Milestone Pub
Published: 2010-09
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780982701911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElizabeth Thalhimer Smartt takes readers along on her obsessive quest to find the true story of her father's family and their department store Thalhimers. Riveting and poignant, this multigenerational narrative weaves together history, biography, and memoir into an unforgettable portrait of an ambitious American retail family.
