Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia HistoryUniversity Press of Kansas, 2007 - 476 страница Virginia is definitely for lovers—of history! As the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America, the birthplace of a presidential dynasty, and the gateway to western growth in the nation's early years, Virginia can rightfully be called the "cradle of America." In this first single-authored history of Virginia since the 1970s, Peter Wallenstein traces major themes across four centuries in a brisk narrative that recalls the people and events that have shaped the Old Dominion. Historical accounts of Virginia have often emphasized harmony and tradition, but Wallenstein focuses on the impact of conflict and change. From the beginning, Virginians have debated and challenged each other's visions of Virginia, and Wallenstein shows how these differences have influenced its sometimes turbulent development. Casting an eye on blacks as well as whites, and on people from both east and west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he traces such key themes as political power, racial identity, and education. Bringing to bear his long experience teaching Virginia history, Wallenstein takes readers back, even before Jamestown, to the Elizabethan settlers at Roanoke Island and the inhabitants they encountered, as well as to Virginia's leaders of the American Revolution. He chronicles the state's dramatic journey through the Civil War era, a time that revealed how the nation's evolution sometimes took shape in opposition to the vision of many leading Virginians. He also examines the impact of the civil rights movement and considers controversies that accompany Virginia into its fifth century. The text is copiously illustrated to depict not only such iconic figures as Pocahontas, George Washington, and Robert E. Lee, but also such other prominent native Virginians as Edgar Allan Poe, Carter G. Woodson, and Patsy Cline. Sidebars throughout the book offer further insight, while maps and appendixes of reference data make the volume a complete resource on Virginia's history. As people in Virginia and elsewhere prepare to observe the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's settlement, Wallenstein's fresh interpretation marks a significant commemoration of that beginning of Virginia—and America—and shows us that the adventure of Virginia has in many ways been the adventure of America. |
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1580s1760s | 1 |
How They Catch Fish | 11 |
Jamestown | 14 |
Pocahontas | 20 |
John Farrers map | 27 |
Land and Labor | 32 |
William Byrd II | 42 |
The West | 49 |
Collision of Three Virginias | 140 |
The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad | 153 |
Sam Houston | 166 |
Edmund Ruffin | 187 |
Powhatan Beaty | 203 |
Blanche K Bruce | 223 |
John Mercer Langston | 237 |
1890s1940s | 249 |
George Washingtons map | 56 |
1760s1820s | 61 |
George Mason IV | 72 |
Daniel Morgan | 79 |
Life of George Washingtonthe Farmer | 89 |
Virginia and a New Union | 94 |
James Madison | 95 |
Washingtons second inaugural 1793 | 104 |
Mother of Presidents Mother of States | 107 |
Dolley Madison | 116 |
1820s1890s | 125 |
Charles Fenton Mercers plantation Aldie | 131 |
Radford Farm Virginia | 256 |
Ellen Glasgow | 272 |
The Womans Land Army of America | 295 |
19452007 | 327 |
Virginia since the 1970s | 381 |
Into Virginias Fifth CenturyControversy | 399 |
Governors of Virginia 17762007 | 409 |
Virginia and Presidential Elections 17892004 | 418 |
Virginia and the Census Returns 17902000 | 424 |
Acknowledgments | 443 |
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