Virginia History In Four Volumes + Makers Of Virginia History

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The History of Virginia<br>From Its First Settlement<br>To the Present Day (1804)<br>In Four Volumes<br>By John Burk, 1808<br>348 + 400 + 469 + 570 pages, indexed, searchable<br>- Bonus Book -<br>The History of Virginia<br>In Four Parts<br>By Robert Beverly, 1855<br>264 pages, indexed, searchable<br>- Bonus Book -<br>Makers of<br>Virginia History<br>By J. A. C. Chandler, 1904<br>347 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable<br>******************************************************************************<br>Digital EBook<br>C<br>D<br>Requires Adobe Reader 7 or higher to View; or MAC Access<br>Autoboot Menu for Easy PC Access; Manually open files on MAC<br>******************************************************************************<br>Despite the fact that Virginia had been England's oldest colony in North America and had played<br>a leading role in the Revolution, no comprehensive history of the Old Dominion was published for<br>nearly thirty years after the Declaration of Independence. Virginia had never had a full-scale history.<br>There were, of course, the works of early chroniclers such as Captain John Smith, the later partial<br>accounts of men like Hugh Jones, William Byrd, and Robert Beverley, and the whiggish<br>History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia<br>(1747) by the Reverend William Stith.<br>Stith, the Oxford-educated rector of the parish of Henrico and president of the College of William and Mary,<br>did produce a work of considerable scholarship, but it covered only the colony's first seventeen years.<br>It was<br>John Daly Burk, an Irish emigre, who published during the first Jefferson administration the first<br>comprehensive<br>History of Virginia, From Its First Settlement to the Present Day<br>(3 Volumes, 1804-1805).<br>PREFACE - Makers of Virginia History.<br>"Virginia has been called the 'Mother of States and<br>of Statesmen' — a compliment justly due the "Old<br>Dominion." In this little book an effort has been<br>made to give biographical sketches of some of those<br>great leaders who have placed Virginia in the forefront<br>of American states. One great difficulty, however, has<br>presented itself to the author in preparing these sketches :<br>the impossibility of treating the many great men whom<br>our state has produced. When we consider, in ad-<br>dition to those who are treated here, such names as<br>Morgan the Thunderbolt, Wythe, Giles, the Barbours,<br>Gary, Garrington, the many Lees, Doddridge, Baldwin,<br>Tazewell, Taylor, the Masons, Stewart, Leigh, Grayson<br>and scores of others, there seems to be no end to<br>Virginia's distinguished sons. Each locality in the state<br>undoubtedly has some citizen who can truly rank as<br>a maker of Virginia history, though his name is not men-<br>tioned in this book. Our purpose, therefore, has been<br>to select only a few characters in the different periods<br>of our history, and to narrate the chief events in their<br>lives in such a way as to give the story of Virginia<br>history from 1607 to the present day. We believe<br>that the best way to teach Virginia history is by holding<br>up before the boys and girls the deeds of those men<br>who have done so much in the making of our history,<br>and at the same time to give them, on a whole, characters<br>worthy of their imitation. Children should get from<br>their school work laudable ambitions, and there is<br>no better way to stimulate and inspire them than<br>through the history of our great men."<br>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<br>Reader. If your system security prevents the CD from auto loading, just double-left click the Autorun file on the CD.<br>For MAC<br>(or Windows) manually open the PDF file for your book.<br>Check out my<br>other items<br>!<br>Be sure