The Youth of the Old Dominion

The Youth of the Old Dominion
Author: Samuel Hopkins
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2014-03-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781494164928

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1856 Edition.

Preserving the Old Dominion

Preserving the Old Dominion
Author: James Michael Lindgren
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1993
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780813914503

In 1889 tradition-minded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), the first state preservation organization in the United States. And where better? After all, who else could so readily claim both colonial and Confederate heritage, both Jamestown and the White House of the Confederacy? In Preserving the Old Dominion cultural historian James Lindgren shows how the preservation movement strove to rebuild a revered past upon the foundations of its historic structures. While vividly capturing entertaining incidents - white-gloved pilgrimages, a Richmond costume ball, even a search for a Jamestown Rock to set back those arriviste New Englanders - and introducing battling (often with each other) preservationists, Lindgren also explores the serious consequences of these sometimes amusing efforts. He shows how the reinvention of the past shaped contemporary Virginia and the South. In a very real sense the battle between North and South was replayed at the end of the nineteenth century in a contest to control the nation's past. The AVPA's significance lies not only in the fact that it played a major role in the resurgence of conservatism in the late nineteenth-century South, but that it fits into a larger American picture where tradition-minded Americans tapped their history - whether imagined or real - to shape their identity. Preserving the Old Dominion incorporates history, anthropology, architecture, archaeology, religion, and politics; it will be of interest to historians in all fields as well as women's studies scholars.

Serving the Old Dominion

Serving the Old Dominion
Author: Phillip Hamilton
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0881462640

Placing the university's development into the larger context of American higher education, Phillip Hamilton narrates CNU's growth and evolution across five decades. In 1958, Hampton Roads leaders initiated discussions with state officials to create a commuter college on the Peninsula to serve both working adults and the "baby-boom" generation. Initially a two-year branch of the College of William and Mary, CNU quickly established a tradition of excellent teaching led by a dedicated faculty.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 764
Release: 1891
Genre: Boston (Mass.)
ISBN:

Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)

The Youth of the Old Dominion (Classic Reprint)

The Youth of the Old Dominion (Classic Reprint)
Author: Samuel Hopkins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2015-07-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781331188308

Excerpt from The Youth of the Old Dominion Many narratives of our early history which are particularly designed for novices are read as tasks, laid aside with a sense of weariness, and their statistical details soon forgotten. I venture an experiment, endeavoring to give to the Past the aspect and hue of Life, to excite a personal interest in events which would secure little or none as unclothed facts. For this purpose, something of fancy has been necessarily admitted, but all idea of fiction is seriously disclaimed. Any one familiar with the annals of youthful Virginia will here recognize, it is believed, a scrupulous regard to historic truth. A volume designed for popular reading need not be encumbered with references. They might have been given profusely, but will be found only where some statement in the text has seemed particularly to require them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.