The Rebel in the Red Jeep follows the personal and professional experiences of Ken Hechler, the oldest living person to have served in the US Congress, from his childhood until his marriage at 98 years of age. This biography recounts a century of accomplishments, from Hechler's introduction of innovative teaching methods at major universities, to ......
Examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes - and how the term community is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist.
Examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood, the complex relationship between human beings and their social and physical landscapes - and how the term community is sometimes conjured to feign a cohesiveness that may not actually exist.
Paying special attention to the governing arrangements that make Virginia unique, from statewide city-county separation to a single-term governor, the authors strike the perfect balance, providing necessary background and historical analysis with current events and policy issues to make the information relevant and engaging for today's students. Grounded in the comparative method, the text provides useful comparisons with governing institutions, political processes and public polices in other states and localities.
Plunder and High Adventure on the Old Dominion Coastline
High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore feature heavily in this fantastic new book from Stackpole. Pirates of Virginia recounts the remarkable stories of the Accomac and Revolutionary war privateers. Famous characters such as the fearsome English pirate, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, "the gentleman pirate" Maj.
More than any other colony, Virginia looked to the West for its future. After the French and Indian War, the Royal Proclamation of 1754 declared that officers and soldiers would be paid with parcels of Western land, vaguely extending about eighty miles in all directions from Lexington.
Shenandoah Religion asks why some Protestant denominations remained on the fringes of society while others sank slowly into the mainstream culture. By surveying the religiously pluralistic setting of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley, Longenecker reveals how the fabric of American pluralism was woven as different ......
On May 5 and 6, 1864, in a rugged area of tangled woods and brush on the south side of the Rapidan River in Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met for the first time on a Civil War battlefield. The vicious, confused fighting lasted for two days. Though no clear victor emerged, neither conceded defeat, and the death-grapple thus commenced ......
Explores how policy ideas are spread - or diffused - in an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized. Using the concept of enterprise zones as a case study in policy diffusion, this book compares the process of their adoption in Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts over a twelve-year period.
