This is Kev's first video/lecture attempt. In this segment, we will look at 1915 film Birth of A Nation. This film had a significant social impact across the Nation. It was released to much despair among the African American communities, with its focal point...
This week’s blog is about John Atkinson Cunningham, the New London Academy in Bedford County Virginia and a Virginia Travel book, dated 1871, that mentions New London and Lynchburg Va. The book was written by Virginia Edward Pollard.
For this week’s blog in HIST 701, we discuss genealogy. For a historian, like myself, family genealogy can lead one down many pathways of unknown family history, which in turn can lead to new areas of interest and research. Over the years, I have found out much about my family, many things I did not know, such as five male veterans: 2 were in the Revolutionary War, 1 was in the War of 1812, 2 were in the Civil War.