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Shirley Graham Du Bois
The first scholarly collection devoted to Shirley Graham Du Bois and her legacy as an artist and activist Shirley Graham Du Bois centers her cultural, intellectual, and political significance as a Black radical woman during the twentieth century. The volume traces Graham Du Bois’s travels across the United States and around the world to places like France, Ghana, Egypt, China, and Russia. Contributors not only chronicle her creativity as a theatrical composer, novelist, journalist, and public intellectual but also present the wide range of her political impact as a civil rights and radical peace activist, international feminist, Black nationalist, socialist, and Pan-Africanist. While preva...
Washington County Revisited
A companion to Images of America: Washington County, this book, Washington County Revisited, depicts more of the areas rich history. In an attempt to thoroughly cover this county in Virginia, Washington County Revisited explores the history of settlements that were once major community centers, including Lodi, Blackwells Chapel, Rich Valley, Lindell, Bethel, Taylors Valley, Hayters Gap, Clinchburg, and Alvarado. Learn even more of the fascinating history surrounding the railroad towns of Damascus, Glade Spring, and Meadowview. Officially formed in 1776 from Fincastle County, the county was named for Gen. George Washington, who was then serving as commander in chief of the Continental Army. Washington County holds the distinction of being the first geographical region to be named for the first U.S. president. With more than 200 images, WashingtonCounty Revisited provides a unique visit to this rural region that once served as a gateway to the West along the Great Wagon Road and saw thousands of settlers and goods pass through to uncharted lands.
Lasting
You are graciously invited to the wedding of John Lasting and Laura Helton, great friends who finally got romantic, but actually it was only by accident. Literally, Laura wears the scars on her hands to prove it! So, become a witness to the power of love and forgiveness, and see how true love never fails. Make a date of Johns wit and Lauras charm, and see where love leads them. Embark on a journey taking place in our everyday life, where John and Laura battle obstacles were all too familiar with: loneliness, disrespect, insecurity, temptation, family strife, depression, stress, worry, and even allergies. Life is certainly complicated, but its a relief to have a friend, especially one who cares deeply for you. Enter into even their innermost thoughts, and see what they really think of each other. Ultimately, its John and Lauras love and respect for God influencing their romance. As long as nothing cancels this wedding, will you be attending?
Losing the Plot
An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the "tyranny" of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of plot-driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner—writers known for their affinities and connections to classical Hollywood—Pardis Dabashi links the moviegoing practices of these writers to the tensions between the formal properties of their novels and the characters in them. Even when they did not feature outright happy endings, classical Hollywood films often provided satisfying formal resolutions and promoted normative social and political values. Watching these films, modernist authors were reminded of what they were leaving behind—both formally and in the name of aesthetic experimentalism—by losing the plot.
Undesirability and Her Sisters
"In the wake of contemporary art's post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation charts a new genealogy of Black women's art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first century"--
John Skidmore of Harlan County, Kentucky
John Skidmore (1792-ca. 1868) was born in Lee County, Virginia. He married three times and had fifteen or sixteen children. He moved to Harlan County, Kentucky by 1832. Descendants and relatives lived in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
The Bean Tree
John D. Calvin Bean, son of Richard Bean, was born in the late 1700s or early 1800s in North Carolina. He married Alice Setser in 1825 in Burke County, North Carolina. They had fourteen children. They moved to Hawkins County, Tennessee in the mid 1830s. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee and Kentucky.
