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Author: Elaine Marie Alphin
Publisher: Hither Page Press
Published: 2010-05-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780979833250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting his grandmother, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
Author: Andrew M. Stauffer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-02-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0812252683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments to their print collections are clearing out the duplicates, assuming that circulating copies of any given nineteenth-century edition are essentially identical to one another. When you look closely, however, you see that they are not. Many nineteenth-century books were donated by alumni or their families decades ago, and many of them bear traces left behind by the people who first owned and used them. In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer adopts what he calls "guided serendipity" as a tactic in pursuit of two goals: first, to read nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left in their books and, second, to defend the value of keeping the physical volumes on the shelves. Finding in such books of poetry the inscriptions, annotations, and insertions made by their original owners, and using them as exemplary case studies, Stauffer shows how the physical, historical book enables a modern reader to encounter poetry through the eyes of someone for whom it was personal.
Author: Rod Andrew, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004-02-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780807855416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, a former teacher at the Citadel, looks at the various schools such as The Citadel, Texas A & M, Auburn, Clemson, Virginia Military Institute (VMI), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Author: Laura A. Macaluso
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1493041843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistoric Virginia: A Tour of the State’s Top 75 National Historic Landmarks is a carefully curated travel guide, written by a local historian, featuring the most intriguing and significant of the state's nationally recognized historic landmarks. This guide provides interesting anecdotes and color photography of famous churches, the homes of Founding Fathers, and monuments of natural splendor amid the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tour the Old Dominion State and travel back in time with Historic Virginia.
Author: Candyce H. Stapen
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Published: 2011-07-04
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0881509116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Explorer’s Guides, expert authors and helpful icons make it easy to locate places of extra value, family-friendly activities, and excellent restaurants and lodgings. Regional and city maps help you get around and What’s Where provides a quick reference on everything from tourist attractions to off-the-beaten-track sites. Virginia is for lovers—lovers of history, the outdoors, sport, and fine food! Hike and kayak at Belle Isle State Park; soak up Revolutionary history in Colonial Williamsburg; sample Piedmont wines and Eastern Shore crab cakes; or visit Arlington National Cemetery. From ocean to mountains, wildlife sanctuaries to caves, Virginia’s joys are endless.
Author: Anthony Chibbaro
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738506821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom December 1901 to May 1902, the City of Charleston, South Carolina, hosted the only world's fair ever held on Palmetto State soil. Officially known as the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition, or more commonly as the Charleston Exposition, the event was eagerly anticipated by Charlestonians in hopes that it would boost business ad industry. Even an unusually cold winter could not deter the 675,000 people who visited this landmark celebration in South Carolina history. With the arrival of the Exposition's 100th anniversary, a renewed interest has been sparked in the story that surrounds it. People from all over the country flocked to the Charleston Exposition to tour the detailed building erected in what is now known as Hampton Park. Appearances from President Theodore Roosevelt and author Samuel Clemens; shows with Jim Key, the famous intelligent horse; and the display of the Liberty Bell, on loan from Philadelphia, were just a few of the highlights that enticed visitors to come to South Carolina's Lowcountry. Readers of The Charleston Exposition will experience this almost forgotten event, from its conception, through its planning and construction, to the fair's arrival and completion.
Author: Leslie Maria Harris
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0820354422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the post-Civil War era to the present day. The collection features broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery's influence on specific institutions, such as Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of thinking about racial diversity in the history and current practices of higher education.
Author: Richard D. Kibbey
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2011-11-29
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1613461348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile much of Pat Boone's fame was garnered through his musical career and his many chart-topping hits, he is also identified by his film career, though it is not nearly as well documented. In his captivating biography,Pat Boone, the Hollywood YearsRichard Kibbey sets out to explore the film history of Pat Boone and illustrate his transition from crooner to rising star. Though some might write off his film career as fleeting, it's obvious that Pat Boone's star quality was explosive. Though he began appearing on television in the 50s, which could have hurt his movie career, 20th Century Fox made an ingenious choice to take him on as a leading man for not only romantic musicals but also science fiction and powerful dramas. With interviews from fellow costars, in-depth film analyses, documentation of his family life, and a behind-the-scenes look at the planning, scriptwriting, scoring, and songwriting of his popular films, this thorough history of Pat Boone's film career is sure to delight not only Pat Boone fans but also anyone interested in the golden era of Hollywood, movies, and musicals.
Author: Andrew Milburn
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2020-02-08
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1526750589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese are the combat experiences of the first Marine to command a special operations task force, recounted against a backdrop of his journey from raw Second Lieutenant to seasoned Colonel and Task Force Commander; from leading Marines through the streets of Mogadishu, Baghdad, Fallujah and Mosul to directing multi-national special operations forces in a dauntingly complex fight against a formidable foe. The journey culminates in the story’s centerpiece: the fight against ISIS, in which the author is able to use the lessons of his harsh apprenticeship to lead the SOF task force under his command to hasten the Caliphate’s eventual demise. Milburn has an unusual background for a US Marine, and this is no ordinary war memoir. Very few personal accounts of war cover such a wide breadth of experience, or with so discerning a perspective. As Bing West comments: “His exceptional skill is telling each story of battle and then knitting them into a coherent whole. By the end of the book, the reader understands what happened on the ground in the wars against terrorists over the past twenty years.” Milburn tells his extraordinary story with self-effacing candor, describing openly his personal struggles with the isolation of command, post-combat trauma and family tragedy. And with the skill and insight of a natural story teller, he makes the reader experience what it’s like to lead those who fight America’s wars.
Author: Keith E. Gibson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1439641471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1839, the Virginia Military Institute became the nation's first state-sponsored military college when the state arsenal in Lexington, Virginia, adopted an additional duty providing a college education to a small group of cadets. This humble experiment became the nation's model for educating the citizen-soldier. Today cadets live a military lifestyle while pursuing an undergraduate degree and may choose to accept a commission in any branch of the armed forces upon graduation. Noted alumni include Pony Express organizer Ben Ficklin (1849), Nobel Peace Prize recipient Gen. George Marshall (1901), Polar explorer Adm. Richard Byrd (1908), U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark (1921), and actor Dabney Coleman (1957). Numbered among the alumni are over 260 general officers, 13 Rhodes Scholars, and a saint in the Episcopal Church. The Post, as the campus is called, is a National Historic District with its distinctive Gothic Revival architecture surrounding the central parade ground.
