Birthplace of a Nation
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, 2024
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- Título
- Birthplace of a Nation
- Autor
- Guild, The Atlas Writers
- Editorial
- Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
- Año de publicación
- 2024
- Estado
- New
- Encuadernación
- PAP
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798305195767
- Peso del artículo
- 150 gramos
- Serie
- Libro 5 de 14: History of Top Places to Visit
Four hundred years ago, three small English ships dropped anchor in a muddy river on the western edge of the Chesapeake Bay. The colonists who stumbled ashore at Jamestown in May 1607 had no idea they were laying the cornerstone of a nation. They knew nothing of the Powhatan paramountcy that watched them from the trees, nothing of the document a thirty-three-year-old Virginia lawyer would draft in seventeen days in the summer of 1776, nothing of the field at Yorktown where the world would turn upside down, nothing of the parlor at Appomattox where a war that killed 620,000 Americans would finally end. And they could not possibly have imagined that in January 2026, on the steps of Thomas Jefferson's Capitol, a former CIA officer named Abigail Spanberger would take the oath of office as the 75th Governor of Virginia — and the first woman ever to hold that office in more than four centuries.
This is the story of how Virginia became America's birthplace — and how, in our own time, it is still becoming itself.
Birthplace of a Nation: Virginia Through the Centuries is a sweeping, deeply researched narrative history of the Old Dominion, written for travelers, students, and anyone who has ever stood at Monticello, walked Appomattox, or driven Skyline Drive at sunrise and wondered how it all came to pass.
Inside this fully updated edition, you'll discover:
The First Virginians — the Powhatan paramountcy, Pocahontas in truth (not Disney), and the indigenous nations still here today.
Jamestown 1607 — Captain John Smith, the Starving Time, John Rolfe's tobacco, and the August 1619 landing at Point Comfort that changed America forever.
The Revolution — Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, and Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.
The Founding Fathers — Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mason, and Marshall: the brilliant, contradictory Virginians who built the United States. Includes the truth about Jefferson and Sally Hemings, confirmed by 1998 DNA evidence.
The Civil War — Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, First Manassas, the Overland Campaign, the 10-month siege of Petersburg, and the surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The Civil Rights Era — Barbara Johns's 1951 walkout at Moton High School (her statue now stands in the Capitol), Massive Resistance, Loving v. Virginia (1967), and L. Douglas Wilder's historic 1989 election as the first African American elected governor in U.S. history.
Modern Virginia — the rise of Northern Virginia as one of the world's great technology corridors, the Pentagon on 9/11, the removal of the Monument Avenue statues, and Spanberger's historic January 2026 inauguration.
Why this edition is different:
- Fifteen in-depth chapters plus eight reference appendices — over 100 pages of substantive content.
- Updated to 2026 with the latest scholarship on the 1619 landing, Pocahontas, Massive Resistance, and the historic Spanberger inauguration.
- Carefully fact-checked against current historical research, with contested claims clearly flagged rather than glossed over.
- Complete reference toolkit — chronological timeline, 50+ biographical sketches, glossary, regional guide, in-focus essays on slavery's long shadow, Virginia cuisine, wine, whiskey, and music, plus a walking guide to historic Virginia and further reading.
Whether you're planning your first trip to Colonial Williamsburg, returning to a Commonwealth you call home, studying American history, or simply captivated by the long arc of a place that has been many things, this is the one Virginia book you need.
Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to begin your journey through four hundred years of history in the state that has been, more than any other, the Birthplace of a Nation.
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