The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the JamesRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008 M12 16 - 320 páginas From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures collided and, in a twisted paradox, the seeds of democracy and slavery were sown side by side. The culture crafted by Virginia's learned aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and frontiersmen gave voice to the cause of the American Revolution and provided a vision for the fledgling independent nation's future. Over the course of the United States' first century, the James River bore witness to the irreconcilable contradiction of a slave-holding nation dedicated to liberty and equality for all. When that intractable conflict ignited civil war, the James River served as a critical backdrop for the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. As he guides readers through this exciting historical narrative, Deans gives life to a dynamic cast of characters including the familiar Powhatan, John Smith, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, and Robert E. Lee, as well as those who have largely escaped historical notoriety. The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishes with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the historical course of a river whose contributions to American life are both immeasurable and unique. This innovative history invites us all to look into these restless waters in a way that connects us to our past and reminds us of who we are as Americans. |
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... land of immigrants , and our true ancestral headwaters are to be found as much across the broad plateau of Central Asia , the bone- bleaching savannah of West Africa , and the rain forests of Latin America as in Western Europe or the ...
... land of immigrants , and our true ancestral headwaters are to be found as much across the broad plateau of Central Asia , the bone- bleaching savannah of West Africa , and the rain forests of Latin America as in Western Europe or the ...
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... land of immigrants, and our true ancestral headwaters are to be found as much across the broad plateau of Central Asia, the bone— bleaching savannah of West Africa, and the rain forests of Latin America as in Western Europe or the ...
... land of immigrants, and our true ancestral headwaters are to be found as much across the broad plateau of Central Asia, the bone— bleaching savannah of West Africa, and the rain forests of Latin America as in Western Europe or the ...
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... land, Gibson gestured to a shaded footpath rambling through the forested edge of the property he owns with his brother Charles. “Just walk right through there, look up to your left, and you'll see it.” I hauled my young daughter up onto ...
... land, Gibson gestured to a shaded footpath rambling through the forested edge of the property he owns with his brother Charles. “Just walk right through there, look up to your left, and you'll see it.” I hauled my young daughter up onto ...
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... land mass and , for that matter , much of the earth's slowly cooling crust . Over the next seven hun- dred million years or so , through a series of continental collisions and shifts , most of the earth's land came together to form a ...
... land mass and , for that matter , much of the earth's slowly cooling crust . Over the next seven hun- dred million years or so , through a series of continental collisions and shifts , most of the earth's land came together to form a ...
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... land simply by searching its surface for soft places in stone . " Most everything I do , I do without gloves , " Branham said , the calm of the shallows reflected in his small , brown eyes . " To me , handling stone is like handling a ...
... land simply by searching its surface for soft places in stone . " Most everything I do , I do without gloves , " Branham said , the calm of the shallows reflected in his small , brown eyes . " To me , handling stone is like handling a ...
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Chapter 05 Democracy in America | 89 |
Chapter 06 Wade in the Water | 117 |
Chapter 07 Liberty or Death | 159 |
Chapter 08 River of Dreams | 217 |
Chapter 09 A New Birth of Freedom | 249 |
Undimmed by Human Tears | 277 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index | 299 |
About the Author | 319 |
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