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..... Read More about Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Collected Under the Auspices of the Virginia Folk-Lore Society
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..... Read More about Traditional Ballads of Virginia. Collected Under the Auspices of the Virginia Folk-Lore Society
Seldom seen, first edition of this classic study in the history of slavery as a legal institution. With the signature of Elbert Jay Benton; author..... Read More about History of Slavery in Virginia
“Bartram and Lewis Evans accompanied Conrad Weiser on a mission from the government of Pennsylvania to the Iroquois, to settle a quarrel between the Indians..... Read More about A Journey from Pennsylvania to Onondaga in 1743
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..... Read More about 1830 Autograph Letter Signed by Col. Charles Gratiot, U.S. Army Chief Engineer, Constructing a...
![Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs]. Anderson Gallery Cook, 1827–1905, David H....](/pictures/thumb/3727777_1.jpg?v=1539214280)
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..... Read More about Four Richmond, Virginia Stereoview Photographs
“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..... Read More about 1867 Autograph Letter Signed by a Virginia-native and Iowa Minister Renouncing his Baptist Faith
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..... Read More about Education for Life. The Story of Hampton Institute Told in Connection with the Fiftieth...
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..... Read More about Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute. Told in Connection with the Fiftieth...
Mullin examines slave resistance in Virginia during the 18th-century as the predecessor to the extraordinary slave revolt in 1800, the insurrection led by Gabriel Prosser..... Read More about Flight and Rebellion. Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
One of the most significant and mysterious slave revolts in American history, “Nat Turner’s Revolt” is understood through a voluminous collection of documentary material; accounts..... Read More about The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831. A Compilation of Source Material
![The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author]. Henry Pleassants Jr](/pictures/thumb/3728041_1.jpg?v=1545174816)
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..... Read More about The Tragedy of the Crater. [Inscribed by Author
![Washington Family Estate Settlement: Armistead v. Armistead and Armistead v. Dandrige]. Jno. M....](/pictures/thumb/3726263_1.jpg?v=1550610381)
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..... Read More about Washington Family Estate Settlement: Armistead v. Armistead and Armistead v. Dandrige
Over four years before John Brown’s “raid” on the Harpers Ferry armory, the town is already a fault line. Unrecorded “Know Nothing” or American Party..... Read More about To the Voters of the 8th Congressional District. [opening lines of 1855 Harpers Ferry, Virginia...
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..... Read More about 1824 District of Columbia Manuscript Indenture Signed Twice by Judge and former U.S. Congressman...
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..... Read More about C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist
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..... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
A statistical review of the progress of Black Americans from 1863 to 1919 by Black sociologist and noted historian Monroe Work (1866–1945), issued by The..... Read More about Fifty-Six Years of Negro Progress
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U.S. Post Office announcement by First Assistant Postmaster General Preston S. Sanford concerning the transmission of funds via postal money orders to American soldiers and..... Read More about 1898, Spanish-American War broadside:] (No. 6243.) Postal Money Orders Drawn in favor or...
“Slavery was a social and an economic institution of such power that it sustained and extended an economic system whose demands went far to determine..... Read More about Slavery and Jeffersonian Virginia
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..... Read More about Twenty-Two Years’ Work of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
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..... Read More about 1801 Autograph Letter Signed from Samuel Coleman, Virginia clerk, to Georgia Governor David...
![Man From Deep Creek. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]. Sheila Sawyer](/pictures/thumb/3728605.jpg?v=1592862863)
“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..... Read More about Man From Deep Creek. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
Study of Virginia’s retreat from rising anti-slavery and abolitionist sentiments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to a defense of slavery in the..... Read More about Slavery Agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832
![Nat Turner’s Rebellion] The Southampton Insurrection. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]....](/pictures/thumb/3729049_1.jpg?v=1580254840)
Well-illustrated history of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion Southampton County, Virginia. This copy inscribed and signed by the author who writes in the Preface: “Persons..... Read More about Nat Turner’s Rebellion] The Southampton Insurrection. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author
