Word: virginian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Byrd family has long dominated Virginian politics, as either the current Senator or his father has held some statewide office during each of the last 50 years. Although the Democrats have a strong candidate in Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, former Chief of Naval Operations, Byrd's chances to perpetuate the family tradition are excellent...
...half a million miles of travel across three continents to find the name of his first known African ancestor, "Kunte Kinte," and the exact location of his family village, Juffure, in West Africa, now Gambia; that ancestor had been kidnapped in 1767, shipped to Maryland, and sold to a Virginian planter. The first black American to trace his lineage back to Africa, Haley has compiled an authentic and detailed picture of African life in his historical novel Roots. Haley retraces the oral history passed down through his family and also affords black Americans an opportunity to identify with a much...
...Revolution, there were 2.5 million people in colonial America. Virginian William Byrd wrote, "It was a Place free from those three great Scourges of Mankind -Priests, Lawyers, and Physicians." Divine aid was considered more important than that of the physician. Only through God's grace could one escape disease or survive its attack. In The Angel of Bethesda, the first general treatise on medicine written in the colonies, Cotton Mather advised in 1724, "Lett us look upon Sin as the Cause of sickness...
...airborne caravan headed up the Potomac Valley, Ford again asked for a change in plans, to hover over Mount Vernon, George Washington's home. His aide, Jack Marsh, a Virginian and amateur historian, urged the President to swoop across the river and study Fort Washington, a stone redoubt built between 1814 and 1824 to protect the capital. As the chopper went on, Ford viewed the steeple of Christ Church where Washington had worshiped, still tall and proud along the parkway. Nearing the White House, Ford turned to his companions. "Did you get the same feeling as I got this...
Still, the exhibition is rich with detail. One realizes, with fresh interest, how cramped the visual resources of Jefferson's Virginian education must have been; his own remark on local architecture in 1781, that "the first principles of the art are unknown," is borne out in other fields by the stiff, crude society portraits of the young colony. The show traces the neoclassical ideal forming in Jefferson's ideals and tastes-the growing certainty that republicanism was a function of natural law, that a new age of civic virtue was dawning and that an art of reasoned severity...