Virginia History in Four Volumes + Makers of Virginia History

Description: The History of VirginiaFrom Its First SettlementTo the Present Day (1804)In Four VolumesBy John Burk, 1808348 + 400 + 469 + 570 pages, indexed, searchable - Bonus Book -The History of VirginiaIn Four PartsBy Robert Beverly, 1855264 pages, indexed, searchable - Bonus Book -Makers of Virginia HistoryBy J. A. C. Chandler, 1904347 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable ******************************************************************************Digital EBook CD Requires Adobe Reader 7 or higher to View; or MAC AccessAutoboot Menu for Easy PC Access; Manually open files on MAC****************************************************************************** Despite the fact that Virginia had been England's oldest colony in North America and had played a leading role in the Revolution, no comprehensive history of the Old Dominion was published for nearly thirty years after the Declaration of Independence. Virginia had never had a full-scale history. There were, of course, the works of early chroniclers such as Captain John Smith, the later partial accounts of men like Hugh Jones, William Byrd, and Robert Beverley, and the whiggish History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia (1747) by the Reverend William Stith. Stith, the Oxford-educated rector of the parish of Henrico and president of the College of William and Mary, did produce a work of considerable scholarship, but it covered only the colony's first seventeen years. It was John Daly Burk, an Irish emigre, who published during the first Jefferson administration the first comprehensive History of Virginia, From Its First Settlement to the Present Day (3 Volumes, 1804-1805). PREFACE - Makers of Virginia History. "Virginia has been called the 'Mother of States andof Statesmen' — a compliment justly due the "OldDominion." In this little book an effort has beenmade to give biographical sketches of some of thosegreat leaders who have placed Virginia in the forefrontof American states. One great difficulty, however, haspresented itself to the author in preparing these sketches :the impossibility of treating the many great men whomour state has produced. When we consider, in ad-dition to those who are treated here, such names asMorgan the Thunderbolt, Wythe, Giles, the Barbours,Gary, Garrington, the many Lees, Doddridge, Baldwin,Tazewell, Taylor, the Masons, Stewart, Leigh, Graysonand scores of others, there seems to be no end toVirginia's distinguished sons. Each locality in the stateundoubtedly has some citizen who can truly rank asa maker of Virginia history, though his name is not men-tioned in this book. Our purpose, therefore, has beento select only a few characters in the different periodsof our history, and to narrate the chief events in theirlives in such a way as to give the story of Virginiahistory from 1607 to the present day. We believethat the best way to teach Virginia history is by holdingup before the boys and girls the deeds of those menwho have done so much in the making of our history,and at the same time to give them, on a whole, charactersworthy of their imitation. Children should get fromtheir school work laudable ambitions, and there isno better way to stimulate and inspire them thanthrough the history of our great men." Just insert the CD into your Windows computer and use the menu to open your book(s), and to download the latest version of Adobe Reader. If your system security prevents the CD from auto loading, just double-left click the Autorun file on the CD. For MAC (or Windows) manually open the PDF file for your book. Check out my other items! 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Location: Midlothian, Virginia

End Time: 2023-12-02T18:09:50.000Z

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