1952 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1901 von 1920.

For The Woman behind the Lens, Berch has had to ferret out the nature of Johnston's relationship with Mattie Edwards Hewitt.... Interpreting their letters' sentiments, the biographer writes, 'is hardly straightforward. Some scholars advise us to understand all the romantic outpourings between nineteenth-century women as expressions of female friendship, rather than sexual passion. Others are more inclined to see such writings as a clue to a gr...

Waters of Potowmack is a documentary history of the Potomac River and its wide, fertile basin -- the setting for much of early United States history. A collage of primary accounts, it extends from the first explorers and colonists, the building of the Capitol, and the incidents of the Civil War through our recent past.Waters of Potowmack records the firsthand impressions of the settlers and surveyors of this river basin, an area that includes ...

Founded in May 1783 at Steuben's headquarters near Newburg, N.Y., by officers of the Continental army and navy, the Society of the Cincinnati was at one time one of America's most controversial organizations. In Liberty without Anarchy, Minor Myers relates how the officers, who had not been paid for four years, began to circulate rumors of a military coup. The society, with Washington as President-General, was formed to exert political pressur...

Elizabeth Blair Lee was raised in Washington's political circles, and her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, third cousin to Robert E. Lee, commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. When they married, Elizabeth promised to write every day they were apart. Of the hundreds of letters with which she kept her promise, Virginia Jeans Laas has edited a choice selection that illuminates the functioning of a nineteenth-century ...

At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the Tallahatchie River three days later and two local white men were arrested for his murder, young Till's death was primed to become the spark that set off the civil rights movement.With a collection of ...

Offering detailed, jargon-free guidelines to help readers come to terms with mental illness in a positive way, this is a self-help book for anyone who has endured the effects of mental illness, whether as sufferer, friend, family member, or caregiver.

A novel that takes place in the Valley of Virginia, tracing the experience of a family with four generations of strong women.

An engaging look at "food prejudices, " or why we eat what we eat and why we reject other food sources as unpalatable--with recipes! "This is a unique and engrossing work and, to my mind, an important contribution to the annals of gastronomy. It will not, of course, appeal to all palates . . . but neither do snails and sweetbreads, brains and other oddments of animals." --Craig Claiborne "I read from cover to cover with huge enjoyment. . . I c...

The Virginia coast offers something for all--education programs at museums, easy wildlife watching at numerous refuges, and a wilderness experience on Virginia's Eastern Shore. From classrooms to tidal flats, opportunities to learn about nature abound.

Bob Kuska investigates the rise of black basketball not as a fortuitous accident of the inner-city playgrounds, but instead as a movement consciously organized by Edwin Henderson as a public health and civil-rights tool. The book covers the many successes and failures of black amateur basketball, and the rise of black college and professional basketball.

Gisele Pineau was born, and spent the first fourteen years of her life, in Paris. Her parents, originally from the island of Guadeloupe, were part of the massive transplantation of Antilleans to the metropole after World War II. Most had left their homeland hoping to improve their lives and their children's prospects. Born French nationals, all theoretically enjoyed equal footing with the Parisian French. The color of their skin, however, mean...

A martial arts practitioner suggests there is a sense in which meditation may in turn be considered a form of combat, citing a variety of spiritual disciplines that employ the heavy use of martial images and categories as part of their self-description.

A collection of contemporary poetry as broad and various as Virginia itself. In Common Wealth Sarah Kennedy and R. T. Smith mine the deep vein of Virginia poetry to present a comprehensive collection of contemporary works that reflects the vibrant community of poets working today. Notable for its ethnic diversity, Common Wealth showcases the work of fifty-three poets--all of whom have a close connection to the Commonwealth--ranging from the vi...

The fire extinguisher, the airline safety card, the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the...

Forty three poets contribute to this book which assembles a remarkable selection of works from the 1994 Furious Flower Conference of African-American writers. Authors range from such established voices as Gwendolyn Brooks and Michael Harper to a host of rising young authors, rendering a collective portrait of African-American poetry at the close of the twentieth century.

Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his day. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, Mitchell contrasted sharply with Washington in temperament. In his career as an editor, politician, and businessman, Mitchell followed the trajectory of optimism, bitter disappointment, and retrenchment ...

An All the King's Men for Virginia, The Shad Treatment vividly chronicles politics in the Old Dominion during the Byrd regime's decline in the 1970s. Thomas Jefferson "Tom Jeff" Shadwell is leading a "people's crusade" to liberate the Governor's Mansion from the grip of the conservative political machine that has controlled the state for fifty years. Against him are ranged the powerful forces that have kept the state back for so long--unrecons...

ASSATEAGUE, Chincoteague, Parramore, Smith's, Hog, Wallop's: The names of Virginia's isolated barrier islands evoke their beauty and wildness, their dynamic ecology. Drawing chapters from the writings of novelists, naturalists, journalists, and outdoorsmen, Seashore Chronicles presents the history of these slender, constantly shifting landforms from the 1650s to the present. Robert E. Lee surveys the agricultural potential of Smith's Island, a...

These essays focus on how Britain can use its strengths in broadcasting, telecommunications, and deregulation to get the best from new technologies, exploit world markets, and bring its benefits to all in Great Britain.

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