Author: John Blankenbaker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940945026
Category : Germanna (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This superb study is the culmination of decades of research by John Blankenbaker, the foremost authority on the families that came to Germanna in 1717 and others that joined them later. Every descendant of these families needs this book. It includes background on Governor Spotswood, the Germans' sojourn in England, Hebron Church, land grants in Madison County, and much more. Every family surname has a section devoted to its background in Germany and early years in Virginia. Descriptive photographs from the Blankenbakers' travels to the villages from which these families emigrated are a bonus.
The Second Germanna Colony and Other Pioneers
Author: John Blankenbaker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940945026
Category : Germanna (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This superb study is the culmination of decades of research by John Blankenbaker, the foremost authority on the families that came to Germanna in 1717 and others that joined them later. Every descendant of these families needs this book. It includes background on Governor Spotswood, the Germans' sojourn in England, Hebron Church, land grants in Madison County, and much more. Every family surname has a section devoted to its background in Germany and early years in Virginia. Descriptive photographs from the Blankenbakers' travels to the villages from which these families emigrated are a bonus.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940945026
Category : Germanna (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This superb study is the culmination of decades of research by John Blankenbaker, the foremost authority on the families that came to Germanna in 1717 and others that joined them later. Every descendant of these families needs this book. It includes background on Governor Spotswood, the Germans' sojourn in England, Hebron Church, land grants in Madison County, and much more. Every family surname has a section devoted to its background in Germany and early years in Virginia. Descriptive photographs from the Blankenbakers' travels to the villages from which these families emigrated are a bonus.
Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia, 1714-1750
Author: Benjamin Holtzclaw
Publisher: Germanna Foundation
ISBN: 9781940945033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The gold standard for Germanna First Colony research and genealogy, this 1964 book covers the early German ancestry of 12 families from Nassau-Siegen represented at Fort Germanna in Virginia in 1714. With index. This special edition update has additional information, photos, articles and corrections.
Publisher: Germanna Foundation
ISBN: 9781940945033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The gold standard for Germanna First Colony research and genealogy, this 1964 book covers the early German ancestry of 12 families from Nassau-Siegen represented at Fort Germanna in Virginia in 1714. With index. This special edition update has additional information, photos, articles and corrections.
Southern Journey
Author: Edward L. Ayers
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the present day by focusing on the settling, unsettling, and resettling of the South. Using migration as the dominant theme of southern history and including indigenous, white, black, and immigrant people in the story, Edward L. Ayers cuts across the usual geographic, thematic, and chronological boundaries that subdivide southern history. Ayers explains the major contours and events of the southern past from a fresh perspective, weaving geography with history in innovative ways. He uses unique color maps created with sophisticated geographic information system (GIS) tools to interpret massive data sets from a humanistic perspective, providing a view of movement within the South with a clarity, detail, and continuity we have not seen before. The South has never stood still; it is—and always has been—changing in deep, radical, sometimes contradictory ways, often in divergent directions. Ayers’s history of migration in the South is a broad yet deep reinterpretation of the region’s past that informs our understanding of the population, economy, politics, and culture of the South today. Southern Journey is not only a pioneering work of history; it is a grand recasting of the South’s past by one of its most renowned and appreciated scholars.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the present day by focusing on the settling, unsettling, and resettling of the South. Using migration as the dominant theme of southern history and including indigenous, white, black, and immigrant people in the story, Edward L. Ayers cuts across the usual geographic, thematic, and chronological boundaries that subdivide southern history. Ayers explains the major contours and events of the southern past from a fresh perspective, weaving geography with history in innovative ways. He uses unique color maps created with sophisticated geographic information system (GIS) tools to interpret massive data sets from a humanistic perspective, providing a view of movement within the South with a clarity, detail, and continuity we have not seen before. The South has never stood still; it is—and always has been—changing in deep, radical, sometimes contradictory ways, often in divergent directions. Ayers’s history of migration in the South is a broad yet deep reinterpretation of the region’s past that informs our understanding of the population, economy, politics, and culture of the South today. Southern Journey is not only a pioneering work of history; it is a grand recasting of the South’s past by one of its most renowned and appreciated scholars.
Teaching the Male Brain
Author: Abigail Norfleet James
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1483371417
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Unlock the potential of every boy! Help the boys in your school and in your life succeed beyond anyone’s expectations–even their own. Updated with the latest research in neuroscience and developmental psychology, this bestselling guide translates theory into tested and refined strategies that are ready to be put to work immediately. Features include A discussion of cognitive gender differences and how they relate to education An analysis of the benefits and challenges of single-sex classrooms Tried and true techniques for differentiating learning in co-ed classrooms Cutting-edge strategies for reaching boys with ADHD, learning disabilities, social and emotional differences, and more Detailed case studies and real-life dilemmas
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1483371417
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Unlock the potential of every boy! Help the boys in your school and in your life succeed beyond anyone’s expectations–even their own. Updated with the latest research in neuroscience and developmental psychology, this bestselling guide translates theory into tested and refined strategies that are ready to be put to work immediately. Features include A discussion of cognitive gender differences and how they relate to education An analysis of the benefits and challenges of single-sex classrooms Tried and true techniques for differentiating learning in co-ed classrooms Cutting-edge strategies for reaching boys with ADHD, learning disabilities, social and emotional differences, and more Detailed case studies and real-life dilemmas
Baroque Science
Author: Ofer Gal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022621298X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022621298X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.
Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen
Author: Warren Wilkinson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A narrative of the day-to-day existence of a single Federal regiment in the final year of the Civil war. With extensive passages from the diaries and letters of the men who were there.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A narrative of the day-to-day existence of a single Federal regiment in the final year of the Civil war. With extensive passages from the diaries and letters of the men who were there.
The Yager Family
Author: Cathi Clore Frost
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940945002
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
In-depth genealogy research on Yager family history. This is a very large volume, more than 600 pages chocked full of information! Cathi Clore Frost has been working on this volume for years with help from a lot of Yagers. This is the ultimate publication on Yager family history. Chapters include: --Generation 1: Nicholas Yager, 1717 Immigrant to Virginia; --Generation 2: Adam Yager, son of Nicholas Yager; --Generation 3: Children of Adam Yager, Grandchildren of Nicholas Yager; --Generation 4: Great-Grandchildren of Nicholas Yager; --Generation 5: Great-Great-Grandchildren of Nicholas Yager John Yager "of the Piney Woods"; --History of the Yeager Family by William Henry Harrison Yeager
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940945002
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
In-depth genealogy research on Yager family history. This is a very large volume, more than 600 pages chocked full of information! Cathi Clore Frost has been working on this volume for years with help from a lot of Yagers. This is the ultimate publication on Yager family history. Chapters include: --Generation 1: Nicholas Yager, 1717 Immigrant to Virginia; --Generation 2: Adam Yager, son of Nicholas Yager; --Generation 3: Children of Adam Yager, Grandchildren of Nicholas Yager; --Generation 4: Great-Grandchildren of Nicholas Yager; --Generation 5: Great-Great-Grandchildren of Nicholas Yager John Yager "of the Piney Woods"; --History of the Yeager Family by William Henry Harrison Yeager
Acolytes of Nature
Author: Denise Phillips
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226667375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of “science” itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean “science,” naturwissenschaft, was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however, the term was in use everywhere. Acolytes of Nature follows the emergence of this important new category within German-speaking Europe, tracing its rise from an insignificant eighteenth-century neologism to a defining rallying cry of modern German culture. Today’s notion of a unified natural science has been deemed an invention of the mid-nineteenth century. Yet what Denise Phillips reveals here is that the idea of naturwissenschaft acquired a prominent place in German public life several decades earlier. Phillips uncovers the evolving outlines of the category of natural science and examines why Germans of varied social station and intellectual commitments came to find this label useful. An expanding education system, an increasingly vibrant consumer culture and urban social life, the early stages of industrialization, and the emergence of a liberal political movement all fundamentally altered the world in which educated Germans lived, and also reshaped the way they classified knowledge.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226667375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of “science” itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean “science,” naturwissenschaft, was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however, the term was in use everywhere. Acolytes of Nature follows the emergence of this important new category within German-speaking Europe, tracing its rise from an insignificant eighteenth-century neologism to a defining rallying cry of modern German culture. Today’s notion of a unified natural science has been deemed an invention of the mid-nineteenth century. Yet what Denise Phillips reveals here is that the idea of naturwissenschaft acquired a prominent place in German public life several decades earlier. Phillips uncovers the evolving outlines of the category of natural science and examines why Germans of varied social station and intellectual commitments came to find this label useful. An expanding education system, an increasingly vibrant consumer culture and urban social life, the early stages of industrialization, and the emergence of a liberal political movement all fundamentally altered the world in which educated Germans lived, and also reshaped the way they classified knowledge.
John Jacob Rector of Germanna and His Descendants
Author: Benjamin Clark Holtzclaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia
Author: Christopher E. Hendricks
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Hendricks writes on how towns in backcountry Virginia came about from the designs and ambitions of entrepreneurial individuals. They did not just spring up randomly in some pleasing meadow or on some riverbank happened upon by a frontiersman, for example, or a group which had struck out into the wilderness. "The people who put these plans [for towns] into action were motivated by a variety of economic, social, or philanthropic factors and sometimes purely by circumstance and opportunity." These entrepreneurial-like individuals were not a part of any organized movement. But their activities in toto played a large part in opening up the western parts of Virginia and setting a pattern for westward expansion. Among the towns Hendricks studies in larger topological areas such as the Piedmont and the Great Valley (Shenandoah) are Winchester, Marysville, Leesburg, Woodstock, Charlottesville, and Brent Town. Early maps of many of the towns especially demonstrate the ideas and purposes of their founders. Along with the maps, the authors specifics on the conception, establishment, and early period of the many towns makes each oe stand out distinctively. The enterprises and goals of the town were as varied as the individuals who conceived them.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572335431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Hendricks writes on how towns in backcountry Virginia came about from the designs and ambitions of entrepreneurial individuals. They did not just spring up randomly in some pleasing meadow or on some riverbank happened upon by a frontiersman, for example, or a group which had struck out into the wilderness. "The people who put these plans [for towns] into action were motivated by a variety of economic, social, or philanthropic factors and sometimes purely by circumstance and opportunity." These entrepreneurial-like individuals were not a part of any organized movement. But their activities in toto played a large part in opening up the western parts of Virginia and setting a pattern for westward expansion. Among the towns Hendricks studies in larger topological areas such as the Piedmont and the Great Valley (Shenandoah) are Winchester, Marysville, Leesburg, Woodstock, Charlottesville, and Brent Town. Early maps of many of the towns especially demonstrate the ideas and purposes of their founders. Along with the maps, the authors specifics on the conception, establishment, and early period of the many towns makes each oe stand out distinctively. The enterprises and goals of the town were as varied as the individuals who conceived them.