First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. signs...
First Edition of this important collection of American balladry, edited by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr., Archivist of the Virginia Collections of Ballads. Davis, Jr. presents...
Manuscript leaf, fragile, of Confederate Army Division battle orders during the Second Battle of Petersburg and a pre-battle report, all issued in June 1864 by...
U.S. Army Chief Engineer Col. Charles Gratiot here writes to Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the Unite States Army concerning the officer in.....
Four stereoview photographs of scenes in Richmond, Virginia photographed and published by Cook, Anderson Gallery of Richmond. The images, likely from the 1870s, are from...
A valuable overview of Confederate writings immediately after the Civil War, written by this notable historian. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1939. 235pp. First Edition.....
“The doctrine of an eternal Hell of fire & brimstone is all bosh…” Intimate letter by Iowa physician E.T. Manning, writing to a woman friend.....
Peabody notes in his introduction that “Hampton Institute may be studied as a well organized school for industrial training, or as an evidence of the.....
First Edition of this thorough history of Hampton Institute in Virginia up until the year 1918. The author, Francis Greenwood Peabody was a Hampton Institute...
This particular copy inscribed “...with deep appreciation and still deeper envious admiration” to one Harry Wildes. A tale of the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia by.....
One year after the 1967 publication of William Styron’s controversial novel of an 1831 slave rebellion, Confessions of Nat Turner, a lecture by the Marxist...
[i.e., House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 15.]. CWB I, p10: “McClellan’s official report, containing much information on the initial organization.....
Manuscript group primarily concerned with the case of Armistead v. Dandridge, a drawn out Virginia lawsuit with roots in the eighteenth century. Much information on...
This 1824 indenture concerns the settlement of a debt and sale of land by John Holohan of Washington, D.C. to Humphrey Peake, Collector of the...
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned...
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at the Hampton Institute for African-Americans and native Americans; this title published almost a decade...
In the aftermath of the 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry in Virginia, a small pocket New Testament Bible was given to a woman, Mollie E....
Title continues: “Records of Negro and Indian Graduates and ex-Students With historical and personal sketches and testimony on important race questions from within and without.....
Here, Coleman presents Governor David Emanuel with Virginia’s most recently-enacted laws. The letter is docketed, in part, “Exchange of Laws” and reads, in full: Richmond.....
“The story of a man from Deep Creek, Virginia and how he became a man of New York City, and a father to be adored.....
Important history of African Americans in Virginia written by African-Americans and published under the auspices of the federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) in Virginia and...
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